- I have a state of Michigan teaching certificate for English and Anthropology. I can teach English but cannot teach journalism and/or yearbook.
- Because of this and NCLB, I need to get a journalism endorsement for my certificate so I can teach journalism and/or yearbook.
- I am unlikely to find a full-time teaching job at this point in the year. This means I am out of a teaching job till at least next fall.
- I am unlikely to find a job in an area that interests me besides teaching since I don't have experience with anything else.
- Therefore, I need to go back to school.
With all this in mind, I've done some thinking and made a lot of phone calls. Here's the plan:
- I need to go to MSU to get a journalism minor. After looking over their program versus Madonna's (they are the only two accredited journalism programs recognized by the State of MI Dept of Education) MSU's seems far superior. I will manage with the fact that this is enemy territory and I'll have to conceal the fact that I've got three degrees from U of M.
- I'm actually excited about this--I didn't expect to be back in school so soon (if ever) but the classes I'll have to take sound really interesting and totally different from what I spent the last two years in DC taking.
- Getting a minor in journalism may help if I decide to leave teaching and work as a writer at a rock magazine ;)
- The money side of this freaks me out, but, I guess you have to spend money to make money. If I play my cards right, I can still keep my boring but income producing job AND go to school. So, that would help.
This is definitely not what I expected to be doing when I decided to leave DC and grad school behind, but I'm ok with it. I guess if I have to be semi-unemployed and unlikely to get a job till next fall, I can think of worse things than using the time to go back to school (again). At least I'll be using my brain which I don't really get to do where I'm working right now. MSU may be enemy territory but it's still a good school, and, unlike my former school in DC, it's huge, offers lots of classes and even multiple sections of those classes (can you imagine!?) and there will be lots and lots of people. Sure, like the DC school, some of them will be weird, but at least it'll be a bigger pool to fish in. So, that's the plan.
A few other thoughts:
- I'm thinking about starting a music ezine. I need to figure out what niche to go after, so if you feel that there's an area in music that needs more coverage, let me know. I figure a good place to begin is with the Ann Arbor music scene. We'll see...
- I need to get off my ass and do something about learning how to play the guitar. Enough thinking about it, DO SOMETHING!
Finally, a song quote for today:
Well I'm a total wreck and almost every day.
Like the firing squad or the mess you made.
Well don't I look pretty walking down the street.
In the best damn dress I own?
[Chorus]If you were here I'd never have a fear.
So go on live your life.
But I miss you more than I did yesterday.
You're so far away.
So c'mon show me how.
'Cause I mean this more than words can ever say.
Some might say we are made from the sharpest things you say
We are young and we don't care.
Your dreams and your hopeless hair.
We never wanted it to be this way.
For all our lives.
Do you care {at all}?
-"Give 'em Hell, Kid" MCR
1 comment:
I'd say that given the circumstances, that's a good plan. Haven't heard anything more from Bob, but then again, after stalking him in his office at 4:30 the other day, I thought I'd give him some space before I ask again ;). It seems, however, that the HR guy is out at a conference these days, so he may not know anything more himself. Either way, glad that you sound better than yesterday, although the situation still sucks.
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