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cornerofmadnessMy school is in dire straits. There is no other way to say it. Do you have ANY idea how hard it is to job hunt when you need three letters of recommendation from coworkers? There is no secrets in this profession. This blows. Three possiblities
1. University of Central Florida. One of my alma maters. Pluses - brand new program. LOTS of friends in FL. Minuses- Central floridais INSANELY expensive. High tax base, rent is the 4-digit range, my fibromylagia HATES heat (witness me nearly needing a cane all this week while the temps were in the 90's), hell I plain hate heat. It makes me ill in so many ways. My doctor's advice for improving my health, no lie, GET OUT OF FL! But the biggest minus, FL is FORTY-EIGHTH worst state in the union for education. I mean that is horrid. I pity anyone trying to raise a child in a state that is so rock bottom there is nowhere to go but up. If I have issues now with ill prepared students could you imagine teaching in a school that is two steps from being dead last? FL was the one state I swore never to return to. I think maybe I shouldn't be swayed by 'having an in' with the place.
2. Washington & Jefferson. This is in my backyard practically when I was growing up. Pluses - baby ivy-leaguer. My friends and family are there, close enough to visit regularly WITHOUT having to spend the night. It's a good school, plain and simple. Minuses -While I know microbiology I haven't taught it before. I don't quite fit what they want.
3. Carthage - Pluses - it's a private school. It's back in WI. It's exactly what I teach now. Minuses - It's in the Kenosha area which is closer to Chicago/Milwaukee and it's Madison I'm in love with. I wasn't wowed by Kenosha.
Then the Columbus Dispatch ran a feature on Madison (comparing the beauty of U of WI to OSU's area). It really made me want to cry (if my head wasn't already pounding from a migraine, I might have). Sadly Uof WI is about the only college in Madison, outside of the technical school (which might have nursing, I should look). I need to be a big time research ph.d to teach there. No, I think I have to accept that my only ticket back there, outside of a winning lotto ticket is to become a self-sufficient writer and we all know the likelihood of that.
I find this process so difficult, my stomach clenches at merely clicking on the chronicle of higher education's link.
back to making my physiology test. must get into better mood before i accidentally hurt them.
and naturally....dragons
and now all the ones that were bred in the last day or two.
1. University of Central Florida. One of my alma maters. Pluses - brand new program. LOTS of friends in FL. Minuses- Central floridais INSANELY expensive. High tax base, rent is the 4-digit range, my fibromylagia HATES heat (witness me nearly needing a cane all this week while the temps were in the 90's), hell I plain hate heat. It makes me ill in so many ways. My doctor's advice for improving my health, no lie, GET OUT OF FL! But the biggest minus, FL is FORTY-EIGHTH worst state in the union for education. I mean that is horrid. I pity anyone trying to raise a child in a state that is so rock bottom there is nowhere to go but up. If I have issues now with ill prepared students could you imagine teaching in a school that is two steps from being dead last? FL was the one state I swore never to return to. I think maybe I shouldn't be swayed by 'having an in' with the place.
2. Washington & Jefferson. This is in my backyard practically when I was growing up. Pluses - baby ivy-leaguer. My friends and family are there, close enough to visit regularly WITHOUT having to spend the night. It's a good school, plain and simple. Minuses -While I know microbiology I haven't taught it before. I don't quite fit what they want.
3. Carthage - Pluses - it's a private school. It's back in WI. It's exactly what I teach now. Minuses - It's in the Kenosha area which is closer to Chicago/Milwaukee and it's Madison I'm in love with. I wasn't wowed by Kenosha.
Then the Columbus Dispatch ran a feature on Madison (comparing the beauty of U of WI to OSU's area). It really made me want to cry (if my head wasn't already pounding from a migraine, I might have). Sadly Uof WI is about the only college in Madison, outside of the technical school (which might have nursing, I should look). I need to be a big time research ph.d to teach there. No, I think I have to accept that my only ticket back there, outside of a winning lotto ticket is to become a self-sufficient writer and we all know the likelihood of that.
I find this process so difficult, my stomach clenches at merely clicking on the chronicle of higher education's link.
back to making my physiology test. must get into better mood before i accidentally hurt them.
and naturally....dragons
and now all the ones that were bred in the last day or two.
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Date: 2008-09-22 11:18 am (UTC)Are they definitely terminating your position?
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