cwessel ([info]cwessel) wrote,
  • Mood: pensive
  • Music: jump in the line! (harry belafonte)

take the job and leave hell (but be really far away), or stay and be a do-gooder?

So I got a sudden job offer to teach here in England permanently during winter school: 3rd grade, 12-16 students max, mostly American kids, highly motivated and behaved and rich and all that. I wonder if I should consider...

But I have another year's commitment to teach for america, and I'm finishing my master's right now in chicago. And scott (long-term boyfriend) is still at law school in chicago, and some friends are there too. So that would make moving permanently suck, a lot.

But I've always wanted to work at an independent/international school! And I've always wanted to have kids to teach that liked to learn and could already read and didn't make it the day's goal to regulate on eachother constantly! (granted I"d prefer high school/college agers, but gotta start somewhere..)

But I'd be totally screwing over my incoming chicago-westside first-graders. And haven't they been screwed over enough.

Maybe I'll just interview to get some more information, and ask how I can work here in the future. That'd let me have my master's and finish TFA, and give me time to recruit a friend-commune to bring along to england. :)

But the offer's only here because there's a sudden opening, right now, and I'm a good person to fill it because I'm also here, right now, with a work permit..

Damn you cyclical thought-processes!

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[info]ceciliamarie23

July 29 2005, 15:25:07 UTC 6 years ago

Wow. What a difficult position you're in. How hard/easy is it to get a job teaching in london? I bet you'd find one easily after finishing up your M.A.
Good luck.

[info]cwessel

August 1 2005, 22:03:26 UTC 6 years ago

Yah, you're right-- that's what I ended up deciding. I interviewed for the job and found out lots of cool info about it, and told her I needed to finish up TFA and my master's. She (the headmaster) said that was ok, because actually the UK wants you to have 2-3 years experience before coming to have a job there anyway (so you don't take a job from a UK citizen..). So good! She put my resume in the "active" file and told me when to email her (around january) in a future year if I decide I want to come, to see if she's got an opening. Which is nice. Whew! I"m glad when decisions take care of themselves, kinda.

[info]ceciliamarie23

August 2 2005, 02:08:54 UTC 6 years ago

Going to the interview was a really smart move. You made a contact! I'll have to remember that. I'm still really bad at this business savvy thing.
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