no job yet.....
but I'm hanging in there. I say that with modesty because it has been hard. I'm down to my last 500 bucks. My house will be going into foreclosure, probably in the next month or so. It sucks, but what can I do? Stay at the hell hole job where I was degraded daily by students and made to feel worthless by administration? Hmm, let me think about that for a 1/2 second. No. I've just got to keep chucking away, taking it one day at a time. I did get a call from a university that I put my Vita in to to teach at and they called on Friday saying they would like to speak to me. Even if I don't get the teaching position, it is nice to feel a bit vindicated. You know that someone finally took notice of my hard work.
The problem I have been facing while searching for jobs is that I'm either way overqualified or way underqualified. It sucks. I'm worried about next school year, since Arizona is retarded and wouldn't know how to responsibily spend money if hell was freezing over, so they fix their problems on the back of education. My last district is thinking about losing over 100 positions. Scottsdale Unified is cutting 200+ jobs, Mesa Unified is cutting 300+ and Winslow is laying off all their first year teachers. At this point, living in AZ is just going to get worse. And nothing is being done. Gotta love the state, who single-handedly is causing, my guess, over 2000 teachers (across the state) to lose their jobs. Too bad you can't sue a state for their stupidity. LOL. That would be cool. So needless to say, I'm trying to stay optimistic, but I'm failing miserably.
I have decided to go back to school for my original undergraduate major, which was nursing. I'm taking psych 101 now. Totally sucks. I hate it. Too bad I didn't pay attention when I was an undergrad. It sucks because the class, is, how do I put this, elementary. It's online, but I can tell the class is really geared towards those.....stupid 18 year olds, fresh out of high school. And here I am, 30, with a masters, taking psych 101. LOL. It is pretty funny. I had a essay due last night, I totally wrote it like I would a graduate paper. APA, double spaced, a running head, cover page, the works; but that is what I'm used to doing. The essay was about critical thinking (think Bloom's Taxonomy). As a student who has done quite a lot within their education, critical thinking is like innate, it just happens. I don't know how I'll be graded on the essay, I'm sure the professor will be like "okay".
Anyways, I just need to take Chemistry and A & P to get the pre-req's out of the way to apply for the community colleges. Now if I don't get in there, I will continue taking the pre-req's and actually try for the U of A program. They have a 16 month program, it is for people who already have a BA/BS. The kicker is, if you get accepted and agree to work in a Tucson hospital for 3 years, your BS is nursing is free. Can't get much better than that.
Not that I don't love teaching, but I'm just fed up with the politics of it. I get that all professions have politics, but.....I don't know. It's really hard to put into words my frustration with education. I know that alot of my frustation does come from living in AZ. Its hard working in a job that you really do enjoy, that is treated like pond scum by the state.
I guess one good thing has come out of my not working, I'm getting to read more. LOL. In like the last month I have read The Lady Elizabeth, Dewey, Marley & Me and Family Trust. I am now reading The Secret Between Us and will then read The Secret Bride. God bless the library!!! I just need to find like a list of books to read and start going through the list. Oh, and I'm reading the lovely psych 101 text on top of all that. LOL. Reading is what I now do to occupy my time, (aside from class, and job hunting).
My dog probably thinks its a good thing that I don't work. He is completely spoiled. He sleeps upstairs in my room. He has tried to sleep in the bed with me (I have a queen). I usually kick him off, I've only once let him stay on and it was because I was so dead dog tired that I just didn't have the energy. I just laid down on the other "half" of the bed and zonked. He actually stayed next to me the whole night. LOL. He also does that when he knows that I'm upset or not feeling good. He lays near me on the floor. Thankfully, unlike Dalon, he doesn't snore. Nope, instead Cooper, likes to pass a lot of "silent but deadly" gas. It's wonderful. I remember getting up once last week, at like 2 in the morning, thinking that cat did her business somewhere upstairs because it smelled so bad. I then walked out to the loft area and discovered it was the dog. I was like "holy crap, he stunk up the place". All I could do was turn on all the fans. LOL. So my dog has gas problems. LOL. But he's cute.
The problem I have been facing while searching for jobs is that I'm either way overqualified or way underqualified. It sucks. I'm worried about next school year, since Arizona is retarded and wouldn't know how to responsibily spend money if hell was freezing over, so they fix their problems on the back of education. My last district is thinking about losing over 100 positions. Scottsdale Unified is cutting 200+ jobs, Mesa Unified is cutting 300+ and Winslow is laying off all their first year teachers. At this point, living in AZ is just going to get worse. And nothing is being done. Gotta love the state, who single-handedly is causing, my guess, over 2000 teachers (across the state) to lose their jobs. Too bad you can't sue a state for their stupidity. LOL. That would be cool. So needless to say, I'm trying to stay optimistic, but I'm failing miserably.
I have decided to go back to school for my original undergraduate major, which was nursing. I'm taking psych 101 now. Totally sucks. I hate it. Too bad I didn't pay attention when I was an undergrad. It sucks because the class, is, how do I put this, elementary. It's online, but I can tell the class is really geared towards those.....stupid 18 year olds, fresh out of high school. And here I am, 30, with a masters, taking psych 101. LOL. It is pretty funny. I had a essay due last night, I totally wrote it like I would a graduate paper. APA, double spaced, a running head, cover page, the works; but that is what I'm used to doing. The essay was about critical thinking (think Bloom's Taxonomy). As a student who has done quite a lot within their education, critical thinking is like innate, it just happens. I don't know how I'll be graded on the essay, I'm sure the professor will be like "okay".
Anyways, I just need to take Chemistry and A & P to get the pre-req's out of the way to apply for the community colleges. Now if I don't get in there, I will continue taking the pre-req's and actually try for the U of A program. They have a 16 month program, it is for people who already have a BA/BS. The kicker is, if you get accepted and agree to work in a Tucson hospital for 3 years, your BS is nursing is free. Can't get much better than that.
Not that I don't love teaching, but I'm just fed up with the politics of it. I get that all professions have politics, but.....I don't know. It's really hard to put into words my frustration with education. I know that alot of my frustation does come from living in AZ. Its hard working in a job that you really do enjoy, that is treated like pond scum by the state.
I guess one good thing has come out of my not working, I'm getting to read more. LOL. In like the last month I have read The Lady Elizabeth, Dewey, Marley & Me and Family Trust. I am now reading The Secret Between Us and will then read The Secret Bride. God bless the library!!! I just need to find like a list of books to read and start going through the list. Oh, and I'm reading the lovely psych 101 text on top of all that. LOL. Reading is what I now do to occupy my time, (aside from class, and job hunting).
My dog probably thinks its a good thing that I don't work. He is completely spoiled. He sleeps upstairs in my room. He has tried to sleep in the bed with me (I have a queen). I usually kick him off, I've only once let him stay on and it was because I was so dead dog tired that I just didn't have the energy. I just laid down on the other "half" of the bed and zonked. He actually stayed next to me the whole night. LOL. He also does that when he knows that I'm upset or not feeling good. He lays near me on the floor. Thankfully, unlike Dalon, he doesn't snore. Nope, instead Cooper, likes to pass a lot of "silent but deadly" gas. It's wonderful. I remember getting up once last week, at like 2 in the morning, thinking that cat did her business somewhere upstairs because it smelled so bad. I then walked out to the loft area and discovered it was the dog. I was like "holy crap, he stunk up the place". All I could do was turn on all the fans. LOL. So my dog has gas problems. LOL. But he's cute.