Enough Angst

[learnteach]

For the following reasons, I will begin hunting an engineering job this week.



1. I'm tired of dealing with students who should be kicked out of the school. (Seriously. After 4 suspensions, for drugs, fighting, parole violations...why aren't they in a remedial school?)
2. I want enough energy to have a life. I worked from 7:30 AM to 8 PM last night, and am still behind.
3. I want to travel. The thought that being a teacher gives you more free time is a myth; the school year stretches from August 20 to June 20. The time off from teaching you get within the school year is filled with the unfinished work.
4. Money. I can live on very little, and live well. But I can live better on real money.
5. Accreditation. Don't have it. The process to get it is very unclear.


There are a lot of "ifs". If I was a better disciplinarian. If this wasn't the first full year. If it wasn't a crew of teacher wreckers. If the schools stopped having infrastucture issues--lemme tell you, when you don't have full booksets, and the copier runs out of either paper or toner, it's an emergency.


I figure it will take between 4 and 6 months to find a good sales engineering job. I can probably finish up the school term here completely; a good job would allow that.

To do list:
1. Buff up Resume. TBD by 1/10/07
2. Redeploy contact list; contact 2 a day. TBD by 1/15/07
3. Put together interview outfits; TBD by 1/15/07
4. Sign back up on DIce, etc. TBD by 1/15/07.

**Sigh.** I wish this could work...but the van is dying, I don't dare ride the bike to school, and I'm willing to be frugal, but not poor.

Comments

[skachick-101.livejournal.com]

if you still want to work with kids with assloads *less* (read almost zero) administrative bullshit, I've got a job for you.
email Bel@schmahlscience.org and tell her I sent you.
if you wanna meet up and talk about it I'll give you the rundown.
if you're not interested, no big, just lemme know
if you just need a listener and a hug, I'm there for that too

<3 S

[parlor-games.livejournal.com]

oooh, you're right. that might be an excellent place for him.

John, one more thing to consider: in public schools things are very different.

[semy-of-pearls.livejournal.com]

Ah well, it was a good experiment and experience.

Why yes, I do love my job...

[nibuca.livejournal.com]

I work for CNET and I recommend it highly.

https://careers.cnetnetworks.com/joblist.html

We currently have 52 openings in the SF office. Let me know if you're interested and I'll be happy to sit down and try and help you find the right fit.

At CNET I've worked with the smartest most passionate people who are focused on "getting it right". Management here has always been supportive (at least of me) and the perks are pretty impressive.

[mad-duchess.livejournal.com]

Rats. Sorry it has come to this. I don't think my company (Entrisphere) is looking for Sales Engineers at the moment, but I think we have some test engineer spots open that could tide you over til you find something more up your alley. We're still small, but I really like the work environment here.

[daibhidhbeag.livejournal.com]

There are some openings at the SF Sales Office as well as the Mountain View and Sunnyvale campuses. Check out the http://www.microsoft.com/careers/ site and let me know if you want a referral for any of the open REQs.

-Db

[klwilliams.livejournal.com]

No, let me know if you want a referral for any of the open reqs. :-)

[(Anonymous)]

sorry it has come to this, but sometimes you just need to give it a try before you can move on. Also remember - it was an experiment that didn't work, but not a failure. Best of luck on the search. So now to 12th Night - fun and friends - leave the school behind for the weekend and come play!

[lifeofglamour.livejournal.com]

Hooray! I'm sorry it didn't work out, but I'm really happy you won't be going there next year.

[helblonde.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry that the kids are f***ups. I'm glad you're getting out of the job. I miss the old, happier John. Congratulations on deciding to go with what is best for YOU. Besides, we don't want these kids eating your sanity.

Hugs!

[whumpdotcom.livejournal.com]

Send me your resume when it's ready. I was talking to my old boss, who's now a PM lead in iTMS production, who has something you'd be great for.

[xartle.livejournal.com]

Sun has a bunch of stuff in Sunnyvale and Santa Clara too. Post what kind of job you want and I'll do the little internal search thing for you.

[katie-in-london.livejournal.com]

*hugs* Everyone else has pretty much said it all already, but I'll jump on the bandwagon and say, 'Love the You!'

And dude, seriously, we have GOT to do lunch eventually!

[vew.livejournal.com]

Let me know what I can do to help..... I have some openings in commercial area..... SFO area.... Twisted.. send resume.