Fortunately, it's not all due on one return. Also fortunate is I had witholdings on my w-2 job and investments.
Anyone who has been successful working on only one job at a time certainly has a leg up on me. I have worked for over ten years and usually had at least two jobs at the same time. At some points I had two jobs and was completing a degree.
Self employment is so stressful, at least it has been for me. It is like typing while seated in the maw of some sort of ravenous beast that feeds off what you are doing while seated in same maw. I think it feeds on paper; that and hope.
All I have wanted my entire life is a single job I could have for years and years. A place I could be friendly with people and have them be friendly back. After about 15 years of looking around Massachusetts and elsewhere, I have been, for a variety of reasons, unable ever to find a single job that would support me and be fulfilling in a way that makes hard work feel worthwhile, without that feeling you get at 3 am which compels you to a computer to get some more paper ready to be shoveled down that gaping maw, one step ahead of oblivion.
I have sort of compared my professional career to a death march. Don't get me wrong I love the practice of law (and will practice at it again), but the amount of work I had to do teaching and practicing at the same time left me so isolated that I finally needed to stop before I got irreparably sick.
So I have the honor of paying my government a lot of money for money I earned to pay debt, two years ago.
Let's see, I am not upset or low about owing money to the government. That's an unavoidable consequence of being human. Marmots and emus don't have to worry about tax.
While impatiently waiting on my visa today, I also managed to find the class schedule of the school I am to work at. Rise and shine at 6 am, breakfast at 6:30. The day of the kids at the school reminds me of attending MiltonAcademy. I am looking forward to a new chapter in my life in the Middle Kingdom of China.
Below is the daily schedule for the school:
The Students’ Typical Daily Schedule at Handan No. 1 High School:
- 6:00———————Wake up
- 6:30———————Breakfast
- 6:45-7:30————Morning reading
- 7:40-8:20————-Class
- 8:30-9:10————-Class
- 9:20-10:00————Class
- 10:10-10:50———-Class
- 11:00-11:40———-Class
- 12:00-2:00————Lunch and afternoon rest (for napping, studying, or anything else they choose)
- 2:00-2:40————-Class
- 2:50-3:30————-Class
- 3:40-4:20————-Class
- On Wednesdays students have “club time” at 4:20 instead of an additional class.
- 4:30-5:10————-Class
- 5:30-6:20————-Dinner
- 6:30-6:50————-Evening reading in classroom (often all students read aloud together in English)
- 7:00———————Exams (different subjects on different days of the week)
- 8:10-10:20————Study Hall (in classroom)
- 10:30———————Back to dorms
- 10:50 PM—————Lights Out
Saturdays and Sundays the high school students have some variations in their schedules. In the mornings they wake up at 6:20 and have to be in their classrooms for morning reading at 7:20. Classes still run from 7:40 to 11:40. Saturday afternoons they have class from 2:00 until 3:30 and then they have “club time” until 10:00pm, during which time they can either participate in club activities, study, or relax a bit, but they can’t go back to their rooms until 10:00pm. Sundays are almost exactly like M-F, except they wake up a bit later and they have a “meeting” with their class’s head teacher from 5:40 to 6:40. During this time the head teacher lets them know what to expect for the upcoming week.
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