My first job offer..
Oh, my God!!! So I got on right now to write about one job offer, and then as I'm about to write, I get another job offer over the phone!!!!!!! 2 job offers on the same day?! In this job market?! Oh, my God!!!!
Breathe.....
So I feel like I have a weight lifted from my shoulders. I actually have options!!! And I know now that next year isn't an abyss of mystery and uncertainty. So now I need to really think everything through. And pray. And go with my heart.
Yes, job offer #1 was this morning. The teaching job in Milwaukee. I would be a bonafide high school history teacher in an inner-city. My life goal and work right there! So I'm pretty sure that's the direction my heart is taking me right now, but I also know I need to really pray and be dead certain before I take on that challenge, especally since...
Job offer#2: the Americorps program in La Crosse, which also would be right up my alley, tutoring kids and working with the homeless and Habitat and the elderly. Lots of different things, of which the variety really excites me.
So now to weigh my offers. I am giving myself 24 hours, and then I will be calling one person with a yes, and one person with a sorry, I've taken another offer, thank you for your time. And I need to call Kathy at the Career Center and ask how you decline an offer. Is there a certain protocol to this?
Yeah....
Anyways, yesterday I got back my midterm from econ I was so certain I did bad on. And I continue to prove to myself I take my studies too seriously. I got the highest score in the class. The irony of this is not lost on me. Maybe I should lighten up and enjoy my last days as a carefree college kid? Especially since I have a job on the horizon...
Today's schedule: class this morning, then honor convo at which I got to stand and be recognized for being a Phi Bete, which felt awkward, since I was right by the first line of professors. Then lunch meeting with RHD, random fire alarm in Colman because the electrician accidently sent it off, so I had to get everyone out of the building. Greek Women's banquet at 5, dinner, load Jamie's car with Goodwill stuff from Colman's storage, Hall Council, go to Goodwill, RLA meeting, then maybe start writing paper???? Depends how exhausted I am I guess....
I feel oddly surreal right now. The poet in me is seeing a chapter in my life closing much too fast and another beginning, and I feel like I am watching it all happen. Maybe I just need sleep. Or a Guiness.
Breathe.....
So I feel like I have a weight lifted from my shoulders. I actually have options!!! And I know now that next year isn't an abyss of mystery and uncertainty. So now I need to really think everything through. And pray. And go with my heart.
Yes, job offer #1 was this morning. The teaching job in Milwaukee. I would be a bonafide high school history teacher in an inner-city. My life goal and work right there! So I'm pretty sure that's the direction my heart is taking me right now, but I also know I need to really pray and be dead certain before I take on that challenge, especally since...
Job offer#2: the Americorps program in La Crosse, which also would be right up my alley, tutoring kids and working with the homeless and Habitat and the elderly. Lots of different things, of which the variety really excites me.
So now to weigh my offers. I am giving myself 24 hours, and then I will be calling one person with a yes, and one person with a sorry, I've taken another offer, thank you for your time. And I need to call Kathy at the Career Center and ask how you decline an offer. Is there a certain protocol to this?
Yeah....
Anyways, yesterday I got back my midterm from econ I was so certain I did bad on. And I continue to prove to myself I take my studies too seriously. I got the highest score in the class. The irony of this is not lost on me. Maybe I should lighten up and enjoy my last days as a carefree college kid? Especially since I have a job on the horizon...
Today's schedule: class this morning, then honor convo at which I got to stand and be recognized for being a Phi Bete, which felt awkward, since I was right by the first line of professors. Then lunch meeting with RHD, random fire alarm in Colman because the electrician accidently sent it off, so I had to get everyone out of the building. Greek Women's banquet at 5, dinner, load Jamie's car with Goodwill stuff from Colman's storage, Hall Council, go to Goodwill, RLA meeting, then maybe start writing paper???? Depends how exhausted I am I guess....
I feel oddly surreal right now. The poet in me is seeing a chapter in my life closing much too fast and another beginning, and I feel like I am watching it all happen. Maybe I just need sleep. Or a Guiness.