Lovely day to start job searching, eh?

Today begins the long slog towards a job. Unfortunately, not many positions are being advertised right now for English Teachers -- and a good deal of the available positions are open only to in-district transfers.

I am hereby activating all contacts. If you know of any openings for FT English Teachers in 7th through 12th grades, particularly in a district that participates in either Project Pipeline (which is to say, the entire Sacramento area) or Project Impact, please let me know. I'm looking in all the available places, including Edjoin*, but the more eyes the better, eh?

Linkage: Limerance

An excellent word a few of you might find useful.

We've all been there, I think:

Aggravation

I agreed to work FT through 5/31 because I expected I'd be attending SCUSD's Intern program in June, and I figured I'd get a little extra in. Now, however, I'm stuck doing that when I need to be chasing down jobs.

Thank the Nine for online.

This is a pain.

There are job openings for English teachers all over the place, but I can't apply to most of them -- at least, not yet.

See, I'm not a credentialed teacher yet. I'm just some guy with a BA and a lot of pre-service classes in ESL and the like. So for me to apply to district jobs, I have to be able to show that, if hired, I'll be teaching on an Intern credential for two years and supervised/trained. If I get accepted to Pipeline, that's made a little easier; if I receive the "He's one of ours" letter from Impact, it's a little easier; if a miracle happens and SCUSD calls after all (and that's probably about as likely as me spontaneously changing genders), it becomes moot and my search is done.

And if the district doesn't participate in either Pipeline or Impact? Forget it: there is no chance of being hired there. For example, Davis. No alternative credentialing track there, dammit -- they need a bunch of English teachers, and I can't apply for any of the positions.

Until one of those three things happens, I'm just uselessly spinning my wheels. And I have deadlines: If I don't have a secured, signed contract by June 7th, then I'm completely out of Impact (It's possible I could do the classes later in the summer, but unlikely).

I mean, ok, I know I've said that if nothing else pans out I will become a substitute teacher for the year of 2006-2007, and that's still the tertiary plan, but ... it's not what I want. It's a fallback position, a way of salvaging what was supposed to be a fairly easy process and has become instead a nightmare. It isn't really a part of the golden path. But then, the golden path is looking pretty fucking tarnished, right now.