random thoughts

[cornerofmadness]

So, I started looking at jobs today. Found precious little other than the same jobs that have been on the boards for five years. WHAT do these colleges do to their professors that the positions are never filled? I have been however joking with mom that if Flagler College in St. Augustine (the only FL city i actually liked) had a job I'd apply. They do. In precisely my field...for less money than I'm making now in a city that's far more expensive...

There was a perfect-for-me medical type position at Boston University. Let's not even get into the possibilities of living somewhere in Boston comfortably on a professor's salary (which here i don't even know what it would be. Colleges do vary their pay based on years of experience and amount of education the prof holds but still putting a RANGE in the ad would be nice).

Most all the jobs were in California (yeah because that's affordable), Missouri (uh, no, just no) and Georgia (better than MO but still don't see me getting excited)

I wiped out on my new tai-chi dvd but today i put in the Yoga: Just My Size (or something like that) with a plus sized instructor doing the moves. You know, I actually made it through half of it. This is something I think once i get going I could actually DO. The best part: the deep relaxation at the end. Apparently I'm a pirate when it comes to lying on the floor and breathing and oh let's not forget visualizing. Though at the end I could feel my chi tickling and warming the bottom of my feet. I think it was trying to escape.

And as I was perusing unusual city names for one (going back to my home state of PA because it's loaded with them) I ran across Bloody Corners, Ohio. It's apparently between Austintown and Akron...man I just want to move there, don't you?

Comments

[ex-chaos-by-699.livejournal.com]

Something just occurred to me.

I'm not sure if worrying about the affordability of a place is necessarily the way to go. I know it seems really counterintuitive and nuts, but I'm doing far better financially in Boston (super expensive) than I *ever* did in Burlington, VT, which while not the cheapest place to live is certainly cheaper than Boston. Just comparatively there seem to be a lot more jobs here and I'm less limited by not having a car.

Of course your skill set and earning potential, not to mention personal stuff, is quite different from mine, so YMMV. But if there's a place you'd really like to go to, I'd say give it a shot and at least try to find a job there, even if it's not the cheapest.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

my problem is i'm swimming in so much debt now, moving there would drown me. I learned that from moving to NYC about 15 years ago