You must have learned something in all those years.
It's odd. Well, more funny, actually.
I've spent so much time applying to single schools or single school districts that I'd forgotten just how exhausting the whole process of writing cover letters is. This revelation can be blamed on the fact that I have written up six of them today and I am absolutely wiped.
My options with the public school system now highly limited, I'm pushing into the private sector. Not just teaching jobs, even. I'm at the point where so long as I'm working at a school I'll be happy regardless of the capacity. Hence the new search of every independent school here in British Columbia.
I'm being serious here. Every. Single. One.
There's a huge list somewhere in the ether of the BC government's website, and I have spent the past two days doing research on them all.
Today's search revealed six possible positions: four teaching, two administrative (both of which look like glorified file monkey jobs, but just watch; they'll end up being way beyond me). I've also got a two page list of schools to keep checking back at for job openings. This list is comprised of all the schools that remain once I've eliminated those that don't host postings or that I simply couldn't work at due to major philosophical differences or lack of specialized certification on my part.
And so I've written six cover letters that all sound cheesy and disingenuous. I have to tweak my resume to hell and back for the administrative jobs sometime tonight, re-read my cover letters once more before editing them to hell, and mail packages off as soon as possible.
As for right now though, it's just shy one thirty in the afternoon and I'm going to go have a nap.
Of course, seeing as it's me, 'nap' will probably be defined as 'curling up with a book and some tea', or 'curling up with a DVD and some tea'.
Whatever works, I guess.
I've spent so much time applying to single schools or single school districts that I'd forgotten just how exhausting the whole process of writing cover letters is. This revelation can be blamed on the fact that I have written up six of them today and I am absolutely wiped.
My options with the public school system now highly limited, I'm pushing into the private sector. Not just teaching jobs, even. I'm at the point where so long as I'm working at a school I'll be happy regardless of the capacity. Hence the new search of every independent school here in British Columbia.
I'm being serious here. Every. Single. One.
There's a huge list somewhere in the ether of the BC government's website, and I have spent the past two days doing research on them all.
Today's search revealed six possible positions: four teaching, two administrative (both of which look like glorified file monkey jobs, but just watch; they'll end up being way beyond me). I've also got a two page list of schools to keep checking back at for job openings. This list is comprised of all the schools that remain once I've eliminated those that don't host postings or that I simply couldn't work at due to major philosophical differences or lack of specialized certification on my part.
And so I've written six cover letters that all sound cheesy and disingenuous. I have to tweak my resume to hell and back for the administrative jobs sometime tonight, re-read my cover letters once more before editing them to hell, and mail packages off as soon as possible.
As for right now though, it's just shy one thirty in the afternoon and I'm going to go have a nap.
Of course, seeing as it's me, 'nap' will probably be defined as 'curling up with a book and some tea', or 'curling up with a DVD and some tea'.
Whatever works, I guess.