(Looking for a) ticket to ride
sigh.
ok, irony. yes, you're quite funny.
I knew this was going to happen. That doesn't make it any better...
I'm on vacation. Cape Cod. With the family. Got wonderfully toasted at the beach today.
Also got a phone call letting me know that, because I'm a heathen (aka not-catholic), I didn't get the 6th grade teaching job that I'm certified for and had a brilliant interview* for. Peeking on FB and realize that one of the girls I student taught with (5th grade, same school, etc) just got a job... at a parochial school.
Just. als;kdfhapsoighn
and to top it all off... I got a phone call yesterday/this morning while my phone was dead about another interview. Somebody passed on my resume; I haven't even contacted this school. It's a HS... which... uh, I'm only certified in 9th gr math/science, or will be, once I give PA another $200.
Which, ok, is flattering and awesome and helpful and all this... but the problem being that they're doing interviews this week. In Philadelphia. And I'm 7 hours away, and don't have my interview clothes with me. So, uh, drat.
So I'm looking at planes and trains and buses from Boston or Providence, and I just have to say that this would be the most expensive and irritating interview ever. I'm tempted to suggest a phone interview. And I sound like a moron on the phone.
*Thus far, I had the catholic school (middle of nowheresville), a west philly charter school (didn't rock that interview quite so much), and a couple of phone things, as well as the african-centric philly charter and TFA. 4 in-person interviews, out of the hundreds of applications and resumes and CLs I've been sending out. Just... I'm feeling not-worthwhile.**
**The good news is, if I don't get a teaching job, I do have a backup. There's a class of 89 Swat grad who is running his own SAT/ACT tutoring business, and I talked to him for something like an hour and a half about what he's doing and what I could do to help, etc. It's not teaching, but it is working with kids from all over, and they're developing their own materials, and it could be good.
(I don't want to go back to Philly. I want to see whales.)
ok, irony. yes, you're quite funny.
I knew this was going to happen. That doesn't make it any better...
I'm on vacation. Cape Cod. With the family. Got wonderfully toasted at the beach today.
Also got a phone call letting me know that, because I'm a heathen (aka not-catholic), I didn't get the 6th grade teaching job that I'm certified for and had a brilliant interview* for. Peeking on FB and realize that one of the girls I student taught with (5th grade, same school, etc) just got a job... at a parochial school.
Just. als;kdfhapsoighn
and to top it all off... I got a phone call yesterday/this morning while my phone was dead about another interview. Somebody passed on my resume; I haven't even contacted this school. It's a HS... which... uh, I'm only certified in 9th gr math/science, or will be, once I give PA another $200.
Which, ok, is flattering and awesome and helpful and all this... but the problem being that they're doing interviews this week. In Philadelphia. And I'm 7 hours away, and don't have my interview clothes with me. So, uh, drat.
So I'm looking at planes and trains and buses from Boston or Providence, and I just have to say that this would be the most expensive and irritating interview ever. I'm tempted to suggest a phone interview. And I sound like a moron on the phone.
*Thus far, I had the catholic school (middle of nowheresville), a west philly charter school (didn't rock that interview quite so much), and a couple of phone things, as well as the african-centric philly charter and TFA. 4 in-person interviews, out of the hundreds of applications and resumes and CLs I've been sending out. Just... I'm feeling not-worthwhile.**
**The good news is, if I don't get a teaching job, I do have a backup. There's a class of 89 Swat grad who is running his own SAT/ACT tutoring business, and I talked to him for something like an hour and a half about what he's doing and what I could do to help, etc. It's not teaching, but it is working with kids from all over, and they're developing their own materials, and it could be good.
(I don't want to go back to Philly. I want to see whales.)