Posted 10/23/2015 10:09 PM (GMT 0)
It's official. I start training Monday.
I am so very happy to have a full-time job that, in time, may become a well-paying job. It is relatively nearby. My hours will be decent. It's entry-level, but steady and unexciting.
I am also a little sad. I have been in the classroom since 1991. I perceive of myself as a teacher, and my entire working life has been in class. With this move, I leave education behind.
I know I am good at what I did. I further know that had I had the right job, I would still be doing what I trained for and I loved. However, I had the wrong job, and the wrong collection of chronic conditions to tough it out. I made a choice--stay and be very unhappy and feel as if I was compromising and lowering the bar, or leave and have to move in a new direction. I have been in a part-time job for two years, a substitute teaching job which was largely mindless, but non-taxing.
Once I get settled, I plan to volunteer as a tutor locally. There are some great kids who could really use the help. There are a couple of other things I would like to explore, given time.
My thanks to all who trod along with me, as I got excited about a prospect only to be saddened and let down when it failed. I appreciate the affirmations that if I just trudged on long enough, something would happen.