Your posts on this thread seem to say a lot of different things. I am trying to figure out if you were in school for 12 years, why are you waiting around for a full time job, why are you working odd jobs when if the teaching thing isn’t working out you are not looking to another career.
Jobs and careers are two different things...which is it?
If you had as many jobs as your age...well why is that? That kind of admission makes me wonder what is wrong with you besides your attitude?
“Your posts on this thread seem to say a lot of different things. I am trying to figure out if you were in school for 12 years”
I was in college when I turned 18, scrimped and saved to go. Finished three years of it off a combination of scholarships and working summers. I worked as a treeplanter, and then moved to a different job the next year as a delivery driver.
As much as I scrimped, I couldn’t afford to go and finish off my degree. So I went back to work. Found a bunch of different jobs, all part-time, all contract work, and kept saving up so that I could eventually go back to school, and finish up my last year.
The reason I’ve worked so many jobs is that I temped, and was always willing to do whatever it took. Rather then turn down work because it was something different, I’d take it on, do my best, work until the end of the contract, and not get renewed.
“why are you working odd jobs when if the teaching thing isn’t working out you are not looking to another career.”
It took me two years to get where I am now, where I am teaching part time. I worked really hard to get this job, and I am reluctant to start over again and go back to school, and do something completely different.
I have been applying for full time positions, but haven’t had my breakthrough yet.
Maybe you can afford to go back to school, but I can’t, I have to work and it was hard enough for me to make enough money to go the first time. If I go back and do something completely different, I’ll be 4 more years behind and still no further ahead.
“That kind of admission makes me wonder what is wrong with you besides your attitude?”
I have a hearing disability, and as a teacher, few are willing to hire a teacher with a hearing disability, irrespective of experience and qualifications. I have been told that I should teach deaf kids and deaf students, which isn’t very helpful when I am looking for positions to teach regular students.
I’m very good at what I do - my current employer is quite happy having hired me, I just want to get full time with them, but there hasn’t been a slot opened up yet. We did a major curriculum revision and I was helping train the full time teachers, which is part of why I was brought on in the first place.
But it’s all seniority - I’m the only teacher under 50.