I am very excited to announce that I have accepted a position as Operations Director at Kid Power. This is the same place I have been working (through MVS) for the last year, but now I get paid!! This position is a new one in which I will be taking on a variety of responsibilities such as training new staff, completing site visits for quality control, entering attendance data, and various other office duties. I still have another job interview for a math teaching position tomorrow. I may or may not go since I am not sure how I feel about being a classroom teacher at this point. I have to have an entire hour long lesson ready to go as part of the interview process so I am going to begin working on that tonight in case I decide to go. The thing is, I am feeling really excited about this position at Kid Power and know that I will enjoy working there. During the last year I have been doing a lot of thinking about what I want to do as far as a career. I realize I am not passionate about teaching, but it is what I am qualified to do. Teaching also pays better than what I am doing now so I almost feel like I am cheating myself. But teaching is much more demanding and I won't be done with work when I get home at 6 each evening. I don't know if I am trying to justify wanting to take the Kid Power job (because it is easier) or if I honestly don't want to teach at all. Before other job interviews Ihave felt nervous, but right now I feel a sense of dread. Perhaps God has provided me with my answer simply through that. I am afraid that I am over-thinking everything now.
In other news since I am staying in the MVS house next year I am planning on moving to the basement where I will have my own bathroom. The room is only 8' x 13' and has no carpeting - only cold rough cement. The room I am in now is twice the size. It was also a really ugly bright purple until yesterday. I spent my first day of unemployment painting the room "bird's egg blue" and I painted the trim "woven basket" yellow today. The yellow is left over from when Mom and I painted my current room back in October. I am excited to get some carpeting and put up lights in the closet so that I can begin moving in at some point. It still needs a lot of work, but it is looking 100x's better already. There is still trim missing from around the door to the room and all along one wall. I have "before" and "during" pictures, but I am going to wait to post them until I have the "after" pictures as well. To be clear, I am not being forced to move to the basement, I decided that since I am going to be changing rooms anyway having a project to work on while I am unemployed sounded good. I like the idea of taking something ugly and run down and getting it into much nicer shape. Also I have a few leads on carpeting so that should be taken care of by the end of the week. I am hoping to be moved sometime next week so I will post pictures then.
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