…read all over?

When I’m not at the top of my form…

I need to post. I need to get out of this fix that I’m in. Whether I change jobs or not, I have to stop being wrapped up in what’s going on in my life and my career, and be ready for those who need me to be ready for them.

I’ve been trying to find a position in technology since the end of my first year as an English teacher at Hinsdale High in Hinsdale New Hampshire. I love being in the classroom. Every student is special for me. I feel  for them and with them as we move through this existential drama called life in the metaphor of education.

However, it looks like I am again going to fail to get a position anywhere in technology. Eight of them will be either left unfilled or dissolved in the HUGE fuel cost increases. And I have a terrible case of the “poor me’s”. I have almost completed my pre-school year preps to continue as a teacher in Hinsdale, but I have to recommit.

I can’t, however, because there’s still one more slim chance that a position may be offered to me. I know this will seem petty to anyone who reads. In fact, it is petty to me, but I’m in a terrible funk, and, one way or another, I have to get out of it. I have to get out of it for the sake of each student with whom I’ll be studying, their folks, my colleagues, and especially my dear, sweet wife.

Have you ever been in a predicament like this?