What the f**k am I going to do with myself?
Thank God for Career Services-- if I had to do this all blind, there's no way I would remember everything.
So my options:
1)Go back to Austin and teach
I'm thinking not so much because I want to raise my own family in Austin someday, and I want to travel and live in as many cool places as possible before then. Adventure!
2)Apply for teaching jobs in the DC area
This is more of a "no chance in hell" thing. I don't have my certification; I refuse to waste a semester of my life (and money) sitting around in a classroom all day, I'm as ready as I possibly can be. There are a number of programs (like Teach for America) that'll get you certified over the summer and in the evenings, etc., and school districts who are desparate will hire you as long as you're working on it. But there aren't really any schools like that in the DC suburban area, not for elementary school teachers. I need to find out if I could teach middle school math instead. I love teaching math, especially algebra, but then I'd be in a middle school. So maybe not so much.
Also, I'd be more likely to be hired by a private school, and they don't usually do health insurance.
3)Join Teach for America and probably request D.C.
It's a 2 year committment and I would be teaching in a very very rough area. I'm scared of getting physically harmed. I know that it's horrible to be like this, but I've had the mindset that I want to teach kids who are, well, kids, so probably in some suburban area (and NO, this is not a race thing). I'm scared of what might happen if I go to a school with no money, no administrative support, metal detectors, shootings, gangs, pregnancies, rapes etc. I know that those are the kids that need it the most, but all kids need good teachers. I want the ones with stable homes, with resources and administrators who will work with you and not have to deal with greater problems like violence, with parents who are really involved in their kids and will provide support and make sure that their children are fed, bathed, clothed, rested before they come to school.
But I don't know what TFA is like. On Sunday there's a showing of a CNN documentary on it and then we get to talk to 3 Rhodes alums from '03 who did the program.
Sandy at Career Services said something really smart: apply for it, even if you're not sure, so that you have options. That's what I wish I had done for college; I may still have ended up at Rhodes, but it would have been nice to have options.
Oh yeah, and I'm applying for a Rotary Ambassador of Goodwill scholarship too.
I'm exhausted. Will I have these butterflies for the entire year? Probably.
So my options:
1)Go back to Austin and teach
I'm thinking not so much because I want to raise my own family in Austin someday, and I want to travel and live in as many cool places as possible before then. Adventure!
2)Apply for teaching jobs in the DC area
This is more of a "no chance in hell" thing. I don't have my certification; I refuse to waste a semester of my life (and money) sitting around in a classroom all day, I'm as ready as I possibly can be. There are a number of programs (like Teach for America) that'll get you certified over the summer and in the evenings, etc., and school districts who are desparate will hire you as long as you're working on it. But there aren't really any schools like that in the DC suburban area, not for elementary school teachers. I need to find out if I could teach middle school math instead. I love teaching math, especially algebra, but then I'd be in a middle school. So maybe not so much.
Also, I'd be more likely to be hired by a private school, and they don't usually do health insurance.
3)Join Teach for America and probably request D.C.
It's a 2 year committment and I would be teaching in a very very rough area. I'm scared of getting physically harmed. I know that it's horrible to be like this, but I've had the mindset that I want to teach kids who are, well, kids, so probably in some suburban area (and NO, this is not a race thing). I'm scared of what might happen if I go to a school with no money, no administrative support, metal detectors, shootings, gangs, pregnancies, rapes etc. I know that those are the kids that need it the most, but all kids need good teachers. I want the ones with stable homes, with resources and administrators who will work with you and not have to deal with greater problems like violence, with parents who are really involved in their kids and will provide support and make sure that their children are fed, bathed, clothed, rested before they come to school.
But I don't know what TFA is like. On Sunday there's a showing of a CNN documentary on it and then we get to talk to 3 Rhodes alums from '03 who did the program.
Sandy at Career Services said something really smart: apply for it, even if you're not sure, so that you have options. That's what I wish I had done for college; I may still have ended up at Rhodes, but it would have been nice to have options.
Oh yeah, and I'm applying for a Rotary Ambassador of Goodwill scholarship too.
I'm exhausted. Will I have these butterflies for the entire year? Probably.