possible new job?
Thursday, Nov. 11, 2004 - 11:10 pm

random thought: grapes are good


so this woman called me up - "i found your resume on the web. i thought you'd be a great fit for our school - come teach for us!" haha. needless to say, i called her back. only thing is... i'd have to relocate in order to work there. it's about an hour and a half north of me. and i'm not so sure i actually want the job. it's teaching high school kids (their age range is 14-21... damn!) with mental disabilities. the only real "teaching" i've done of someone with a mental disability is this kid at the school where i am now. but really you can't teach him. he's too young. you just kind of correct him if he does something wrong and praise good things. and hey, if he happens to actually accomplish something on our lesson plans we celebrate. haha. it's too young of an age group to really teach much at all... especially to those with special needs. and one of the questions she asked was whether or not i was able to control a classroom of students well. that raises a flag that this is a problem that needs addressing. obviously they have trouble controlling the classes otherwise my ability to keep them under wraps wouldnt be an issue. to me... that means that these kids dont just have mental disabilities... they're like really disabled. there is a sliding scale of disability... you can just be a little slow or you can really have something wrong. so i dont know if this is something i want to do for a living. even though i'd get the regular school calander with lots of random days off and then i'd get better pay. but i'd have to use the pay to go towards an apartment or something... and then food and what not. so i dont know. i'll have to see how it goes at the interview. i'll probably have to weigh pros and cons. we'll see.

i'm also updating all my ERG stuff so that i can start getting my resume out to private schools. hopefully that will get done very soon and then i'll be able to get some fantabulous job! ha. you can quote me on that. the "ha" not the "hopefully that will get done soon" because knowing me it'll be january before i get all that shit together and get it sent in and ready to activate my profile again. i really need to do it soon, but i have to think of people to get recommendations from. they said i need new ones. i dont know who else to ask though. i suppose i could just ask the old people to send new ones again. haha. i dont know if i really want to ask the director of the school i'm at now. she has so much going on right now because someone just up and quit (without the 2 weeks notice... as in one minute she's teaching, the next minute she's grabbing stuff off the walls and throwing it into plastic bags and storming out). that and the fact that she never seems very happy to talk to me. no matter what the subject, if i initiate conversation, she never seems to into it. if she talks to me it's different... but oh well. and the assistant director is actually the person who hired me and i was all set to ask her to write me one and she's the one who up and quit. without even saying goodbye to anyone. weirdness. i dont know what happened. some people do, but they're being very hush-hush about it. i can't imagine what could have gone on to make her turn in a split second and leave. it's all very strange. very strange indeed. and sure as hell confusing for all the kiddies i'm sure. they're probably all wondering what the heck happened. i doubt she could have explained something like that to them. maybe she just said she was going on vacation. haha. "oh class!!! i just remembered - i have a flight to the bahamas scheduled in four hours! i need to go home and pack and get to the airport - bye!" haha. i want to say that to my class. hahaha. yeah right.

anyway... i'm done ranting for now. i'll update on the job as i hear more. the interview isnt until december though. that gives me time to do the ERG and get that together before i think about switching jobs. woohoo!