relief teaching - disappointed

i received a call from one of the HOD in my school today, informing me that my relief teaching assignment only commence next monday and there would be no lessons on wednesdays. Hence I have a grand total of 10 effective days which means that I would get only $650 for the whole assignment when by my previous calculation, it's $915. Also, I was told that I am only required to teach D&T and not Maths also as the teacher i would be covering only teaches D&T.

The glimmer of hope would be that I would be covering the form teacher duties, which means i have to be there every day, else they may even tell me i only need to be there for lesson and pay me hourly rates which is peanuts already.

Nevertheless, half a loaf is still better than none. i hope this opportunity would give me an insight into life as a teacher and more importantly, whether this job is for me or not.

I have a few more chances, during the main vacations to come in and teach.. after my graduation, i will go on to NIE and after that come back as a full-fledged teacher.

My main regret about my 3 months break since ORD was that i got started on my job hunt too late. If I had started while i was clearing leave, none of this would have happened. MOE took *two months* to approve my relief teaching application (like what the hell? next time i must submit it earlier, in March or something) and also, no responses from JobsDB!! Maybe only one, which called me yesterday before i knew about this... And what with not taking up tuition assignments during my 2 1/2 years for fear of being disciplined for moonlighting??? In the end the one to lose out is me...