Starting next week I'm going to go to work for a non-profit after-school program as a teacher. My placement is at an elementary school--I don't know what age I'll have, but I can't wait to see. Even though my teaching certification is 5th grade-Adult I still love the little ones. Part of me has considered whether or not I should have gotten an elementary ed. certification, but I love teaching English too much to give it up.
On Monday I have an interview with a local elementary school for a tutor/monitor position. This job is part time and would be perfect to coincide with my after-school job. It's in a public school district, so I'm hoping that if I do land this job it will be a good foot-in-the-door for teaching positions once I get my credential completed.
I'm happy to finally have a job, it was starting to wear on me. From the time I was 16 I've been working. I decided this past month that I couldn't be a stay-at-home mom for longer than like a month or two. Yeah, there's plenty of time to do really awesome things with your little ones, but once they go to school what do moms (0r dads) do all day besides clean and cook? Once you get done cleaning and cooking what do you do? Read? I'd read, but after that I get bored. As much as I love reading I can't lay around and do it all day. I read everyday for about an hour or two. As an Aries I have to be moving or doing something active. Whenever I see those ladies running while pushing those baby carts I always say, "that'll be me,"! I respect moms and dads who stay at home. My mom did it for so long, and I really appreciate and respect her for that. It was her decision and I'm glad she was there. My dad had to work a lot when I was a kid, so we needed a stay at home parent to run the show.
In the back of my mind I have all these ideas for my future. One of those pictures is me being able to raise my kids while having a great career. It would be so ideal to only work like 3 days a week, but in the education field that's nearly impossible and if you did find that the pay would be not worth a damn. Who knows, maybe by the time I have kids the U.S. will have a completely new economy and we will only have to work 3-4 days a week like the Europeans do. Who knows. I feel that our nation needs to completely revamp our system. We need to wipe our slate clean and quit importing/exporting. We need to keep our goods here, feed our people with the food we grow, give people jobs instead of outsourcing, bring our troops home and quit tearing down cities and rebuilding them in foreign lands that costs billions of dollars when there are starving babies all across our nation. I know this would take years and probably a social revolution, but hey--history repeats itself and it's been approximately 40 years since the 1960s. I'm looking to get some crazy social change going on and honestly go nuts.
Peace and love...that's what we should be all about.
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