Employment wanted

Last Thursday, I noticed an in-house job posted in the teacher's room at Moose Hill for Assistant I to the Assistant Superintendent in our school district. I was all over it. The next day I hand delivered my resume to somebody at the district offices. This particular job would require working 240 days, which equates to Christmas, winter, and spring vacations off and maybe a week in the summer, but not all summer. Ships like these don't often pass through, and I am trying to jump on board now in the event it doesn't pass by again for a long time, or exactly at the perfect time I would be returning to work.

Despite the requirements and timing, I was really excited about it, hopeful that I would be considered for the position, even if it meant the boys had to spend their summer and afternoons after school next year at the YMCA. It would be a small sacrifice because I'd be secure in a position I would really enjoy: working in town; working for the school district outside the classroom. I e-mailed the director at Moose Hill and the principal at Matthew Thornton and asked if they'd write a reference letter for me. Both did. I was excited when the director's letter came home via backpack express with Joey, because I thought I just might have a chance at this great opportunity. I was excited, that is, until I picked up the principal's letter, when she told me I had some tough competition and that she knew of about two dozen applicants applying for the job. No doubt, some of them are already employees of the school district and you know how politics play a big role in jobs like this.

I will be surprised to get a phone call for an interview. And that's okay. Because maybe it really isn't the right time and it would mean something better for me. For instance, just last night, I got an e-mail from the New Hampshire PTA about a part-time opening for Office Manager. Working from home. PTA, practically my alias initials since 2003, and suffixes to my name for the last two years. The resume was updated, so I just attached it to a brief e-mail to the contact person about my interest in the position and he replied back that somebody would follow up with me.

But things like this happen in 3's right? Right. Last night, the person who wrote my third reference stopped by to drop it off and we were talking and in the conversation, it came to my attention that she was looking for a part-time assistant. She is the Director of Religious Education at my church where I am a regular Catechist. It would only be 10 hours a week and the pay would be less than appealing, but the hours were flexible and I could even do some work from home if I wanted to.

Still, even if the second two part-time jobs might fit around my life at the moment, I nonetheless took the reference letters with a follow up letter to the first one and hand delivered this envelope to someone at the district offices this morning.

At this point, getting one out of the three wouldn't be too bad.