I have a job now. Sort of.
I had an interview earlier today with Literacy*Americorps in West Palm Beach, Florida. It went well enough that the director offered me a position.
The pay is minimal, and I'll be living with roommates in a townhouse. Medical benefits. The interest on my student loans will freeze for the duration of my tenure, and I will be credited $4700 towards my student loans upon completion of the year. It starts September 8. I'm pretty sure I was offered the job because they had one slot open, and I happened to apply. Hopefully I will perform well enough.
This is all really sudden for me. I suspected my chances for being offered this position were good, since the director had FedEx-ed a package of materials overnight to me, and you don't do that for just any applicant. I assume. Now I have to drive the dogs back to Detroit, and then I have to drive to Florida.
My big fear is that I just have no aptitude for teaching at all. I've never tried it, and so I have no idea. My hope is that this experience will do a lot to bolster my resume, what with the teaching, and the literacy, and all.
It doesn't seem right that I have to make such a big decision about the next year of my life over the course of an afternoon.
I feel guilty leaving my cousins and all, right after having moved here, and I will really miss the dogs. And the only person so far to be really encouraging is my brother, who spent a year in Americorps himself.
Wish me luck!
Song: Harry Nilsson, "Everybody's Talkin'"
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3 comments:
I'm glad you have a job, but it is too bad that you are getting not so much money!
As someone who teaches all the time, I think you can learn to have an aptitude for teaching with practice. Teaching/training experience should look good on your resume, I would hope.
That's the hope, at least.
I'm disappointed by the lack of money, but I won't just get a part-time job locally until a library finally hires me. It accomplishes nothing, and doesn't move me forward.
That said, I'm still not sure that this is the best idea. I suspect the program will entail me and fourteen 23 year olds, and I will feel very self-conscious. I'm going to have roommates again, an arrangement that, Julie aside, has never worked very well for me. And where I will be working gives me pause, because I honestly don't think I project a lot of authority. The whole thing almost feels like I'm going back to college again and moving into a dorm.
chin up! you'll do fine. just go with the flow, don't hold back- give 110%, and embrace the experience.
hold that nose, and jump into the job with all the passion you can muster!
change is hard, but usually well worth the effort.
;-)db
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