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- Aug 19, 2022
This might not be true at all, especially nowadays, but I have a personal reputation with the position of "school office secretary" going to the super-fucked-up.
I know two people who went straight through college and grad school, became professors for a year or so..... and immediately had a mental breakdown due to life circumstances. Divorce in one case, suicide of a child in the other. So despite being a bigshot Honor's double-major in Master's Psychology and Education, they're the office lady at Podunk Elementary.
I knew a guy secretary who was also supermorbidly obese, to the point where you just looked at this guy and felt like he was going to have a heart attack any second. He was at the point of struggling to be mobile. They put him on some sort of short-term disability for severe depression, and then covid happened so he was a remote worker, but I never saw him again and I'm pretty sure he actually lucked out and just found a remote job that paid a lot better- he was really highly educated, just physically a wreck. It was pretty amazing that he had been coming to work and doing work at all: this guy looked like he belonged in a hospital bed dying.
So maybe it is that "office person at school" is a really good position to have if you're supermorbidly obese- not much walking, pretty chill, and you can kinda pretend you're putting that 6 years of college in Education to use, even though you've become too fat too teach. "Secretary ass" is a turn of phrase for a reason.
I know two people who went straight through college and grad school, became professors for a year or so..... and immediately had a mental breakdown due to life circumstances. Divorce in one case, suicide of a child in the other. So despite being a bigshot Honor's double-major in Master's Psychology and Education, they're the office lady at Podunk Elementary.
I knew a guy secretary who was also supermorbidly obese, to the point where you just looked at this guy and felt like he was going to have a heart attack any second. He was at the point of struggling to be mobile. They put him on some sort of short-term disability for severe depression, and then covid happened so he was a remote worker, but I never saw him again and I'm pretty sure he actually lucked out and just found a remote job that paid a lot better- he was really highly educated, just physically a wreck. It was pretty amazing that he had been coming to work and doing work at all: this guy looked like he belonged in a hospital bed dying.
So maybe it is that "office person at school" is a really good position to have if you're supermorbidly obese- not much walking, pretty chill, and you can kinda pretend you're putting that 6 years of college in Education to use, even though you've become too fat too teach. "Secretary ass" is a turn of phrase for a reason.