Borders is EVIL
Went to borders last night to pick up a book and a CD... and ended up being sucked in by their ginormous sales. Sometimes I'm such a sucker for a good deal. I ended up with boxed sets of Six Feet Under the third and fourth seasons as well as the first season of Carnivale. I was going to buy these... eventually... one at a time, but when you see a buy 2 get 1 free sale you can't help but at least thinking about picking up all three...
The horror doesn't stop there. I also picked up 4 cds... all priced at $11. I ended up saving $8 on each one... but come on, did I really need 4 cds? I picked up stuff by The Decemberists, The New Pornographers, Coldplay, and Gorillaz... things I may not have bought at $19 a pop... but at $11 it was a steal.
So I'm trying to justify this spending spree by telling myself that my christmas dollars paid for it (Even though I already told myself that my christmas dollars paid for my rental car to KY and my plane ticket home. *shrug* oh well. This just means that I have to start spending less for the next month so my credit card bill isn't EVIL too.
In other news... my aunt sent me a job posting in PA. Not a job I want... at all *coughmarchingbandcough*, but it made me think about where I want to teach all over again. My goal has always (or at least for the last year, I suppose) been getting a job in the Twin Cities area... fine. But what if my aunt sends me a job posting that catches my eye... would I be willing to move? and how the hell does one go job hunting across the country? Do they do phone interviews for teaching jobs? or would I have to fly out to interview... one lousy job interview doesn't seem like a reason to spend $250 on a plane ticket... does it? And where the hell do I want to be in 5 years? Minneapolis? Maybe, but why rule out Seattle, Portland, anywhere in California, the south or the East coast? or even Kentucky... god forbid. Who knows.
I'm approaching the time where I will have to start making those types of decisions... Jobs are going to start opening up in the next couple of months... and the important questions are still not answered: What do I want to teach? Where do I want to teach? How much do I want to make? Does any of this matter? I've spent all my life having things just work out very last minute. Undergrad at Morehead... I had already accepted to go to Bowling Green... and then I go to this band festival for the first time, was accepted on the spot, given multiple scholarships, and changed my mind immediately. University of MN was the same thing: I put in applications to a couple graduate schools, but visited only one. I immediately knew that it was the right choice... it was great, but they were the hardest 2 years of my life. I got my second degree and was almost immediately invited to work in my temporary staffing agency. I was promoted about 5 times in the first month of work and twice more since then, I make decent money that is almost worth the pain that this job often puts me in, but they are flexible with my teaching schedule and I couldn't have even asked for that from most other companies in the area... Everything has just worked out... strangely enough, but will this just "work out" too? I'm not at a point in my life that I can just count on that anymore... I believe that I'll always be employable, but I want the job that will make me happy... the job that really fits me... and I don't know how happy I will be if I settle for less this time.
babble babble babble.
I've got to get myself into music education job search mode, get on a schedule, find myself a good job and say "later, suckers" to my current job... but where do I start? google I suppose.
The horror doesn't stop there. I also picked up 4 cds... all priced at $11. I ended up saving $8 on each one... but come on, did I really need 4 cds? I picked up stuff by The Decemberists, The New Pornographers, Coldplay, and Gorillaz... things I may not have bought at $19 a pop... but at $11 it was a steal.
So I'm trying to justify this spending spree by telling myself that my christmas dollars paid for it (Even though I already told myself that my christmas dollars paid for my rental car to KY and my plane ticket home. *shrug* oh well. This just means that I have to start spending less for the next month so my credit card bill isn't EVIL too.
In other news... my aunt sent me a job posting in PA. Not a job I want... at all *coughmarchingbandcough*, but it made me think about where I want to teach all over again. My goal has always (or at least for the last year, I suppose) been getting a job in the Twin Cities area... fine. But what if my aunt sends me a job posting that catches my eye... would I be willing to move? and how the hell does one go job hunting across the country? Do they do phone interviews for teaching jobs? or would I have to fly out to interview... one lousy job interview doesn't seem like a reason to spend $250 on a plane ticket... does it? And where the hell do I want to be in 5 years? Minneapolis? Maybe, but why rule out Seattle, Portland, anywhere in California, the south or the East coast? or even Kentucky... god forbid. Who knows.
I'm approaching the time where I will have to start making those types of decisions... Jobs are going to start opening up in the next couple of months... and the important questions are still not answered: What do I want to teach? Where do I want to teach? How much do I want to make? Does any of this matter? I've spent all my life having things just work out very last minute. Undergrad at Morehead... I had already accepted to go to Bowling Green... and then I go to this band festival for the first time, was accepted on the spot, given multiple scholarships, and changed my mind immediately. University of MN was the same thing: I put in applications to a couple graduate schools, but visited only one. I immediately knew that it was the right choice... it was great, but they were the hardest 2 years of my life. I got my second degree and was almost immediately invited to work in my temporary staffing agency. I was promoted about 5 times in the first month of work and twice more since then, I make decent money that is almost worth the pain that this job often puts me in, but they are flexible with my teaching schedule and I couldn't have even asked for that from most other companies in the area... Everything has just worked out... strangely enough, but will this just "work out" too? I'm not at a point in my life that I can just count on that anymore... I believe that I'll always be employable, but I want the job that will make me happy... the job that really fits me... and I don't know how happy I will be if I settle for less this time.
babble babble babble.
I've got to get myself into music education job search mode, get on a schedule, find myself a good job and say "later, suckers" to my current job... but where do I start? google I suppose.