Apparently my interview went well last Wednesday. I met with the HR rep and answered some standard BS questions before being ushered into the back to speak to a Director of Something. Then I took a writing assessment test.
Said HR rep called me today to say they were planning to offer me the position pending a reference check. I told them they could call my current boss and my former bosses to their hearts' content.
Now the question becomes: Will I or won't I accept? The salary is larger, the hours are daytime weekday instead of nighttime/Sunday, but I'll need to find out about health insurance because Cha and I are both currently covered amply by the State of MD. Before deciding to leave I'd have to make sure we'd both get adequate coverage. Also, I lose tuition remission and lavish vacation/sick day benefits if I leave.
The new job is weird--I'd have to read children's books and write curricula for 2nd-8th grade. I have no experience with wee ones, or wee ones' books, but the organization is a non-profit specializing in helping poorly performing schools get their scores up, so I'll feel somewhat useful. My lack of experience must not matter because I beat out public school teachers who were going for the gig. My teaching experience is all university-level.
Compared to the tedium of Liberry Land the job seems all sunshine. And, it's only two blocks from home.
7 comments:
Dude, this is right up my alley! Need any help...give a call.
Good luck, I think you'd be great at designing curricula for that age group. Because you are smart enough to know that children learn through experiences, not worksheets! FUN STUFF!
Lil Sis!
I think I got the job because I told them my wife and little sister were big wigs in education, and that I could bug them if I had no idea WTF I was doing.
I'd tend more toward anarcho-syndicalist propaganda, with a strange melange of libertarianism on certain social issues.
Isn't 'bennies' slang for amphetemines?
Sleep? Fuck it.
I was never much for chemicals--always preferred organics. Perhaps that's why I disliked OTR so much!
GOD! I hope for your sake no one from this organization can read this blog! This conversation alone is enough for them to say, "what the fuck did we just do????"
I checked out the webiste, looks like a great place with a stand up mission!
Lil Sis
They were developed at JHU in the late '80s, and already they're in 48 states, and own a big office building here in Towson for their national HQ. Must be doing something right.
I was reading components of their ECE program and they are really with it as far as early learning theory. Rare to find a non prof that is on traget with current research standards. Kudos to them and you for going to one of the good guys. :) Lil Sis
Now you're at KA, Cha's at YA, and I'm at SFA. WTF?
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