After three years of attempting to find a stable,
decent teaching job, I have been unable to access steady employment in the field of education. My teaching license expires during the coming
school year, and I no longer see any purpose in bothering to renew this license
which has only brought debt, disappointment, and wasted a tremendous amount of
time. So, as the new school year begins,
I look forward to recovering from one of many poor life decisions by pressing
on into new fields of gainful employment to work off the shoulder shrugging
amount of debt I have ceaselessly accumulated over the past three years. So you might say this is retirement from a profession
I cannot say I was truly able to ever begin.
The need for teachers in this area has been greatly exaggerated, and I
would advise people to stay away from education as a profession.
If you were one of the ten or
fifteen people who gave me a reference, answered phone calls, filled out
surveys, ignored annoying emails automatically sent out by some school when
they received my resume, or merely did your goddamned best to talk to someone
who perhaps may have wanted to employ me at one time or another, I would like
to thank you very much. With the school
year beginning, I can now wholly focus on becoming employed in some other field
I may or may not have any experience in, and continue working on a book
detailing the whole hilariously depressing experience of attempting to work in
the education field. If there is
anything I do have experience in, it is attempting to get a decent job in the
education profession and failing miserably.
Throughout the process, I have had the opportunity to witness a truly
ridiculous amount of absurdity which I feel deserves to be shared with people
who do not understand how things work as you attempt a career in
education. Quite a few people have
expressed mild questioning to severe concern about what the immediate future
holds for me, so I thought I would take this opportunity to blog about the
subject as I have not done that in over a year.
It has been a rough ordeal throughout the entire period I have been open to working
in this field, and it is a great load off of my mind to not have to be
disappointed with this discipline any longer.
