Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Employment Update

Well, it's been quite the harrowing four weeks. There were moments when I thought myself an utter failure, and believed I had utterly wasted the better part of the last six years and tens of thousands of dollars in student loans. But yesterday, finally, I was offered two jobs in one day, good jobs, one of which will provide me with health insurance (Trader Joe's!). And the other will let me teach (North Central College in Naperville).

North Central was initially promising, the chair sent me an email telling me how impressive my CV was, but no interview materialized. Well, yesterday Dr. Jackson called me and left me a message (I couldn't answer her call because I was busy being administered tiny electrical shocks for the good of science and my bank account, courtsey of UIC's behaviorial science department) explaining that they had an adjunct position open and would love to have me join them if I was still available. So, great news! I was concerned about being out of academia for an entire semester, I need the experience if I'm to get a full time teaching gig down the road. But I'm not sure I want that, I might want to do workshops and college prep/GED courses in the prison system, Trader Joe's and PT teaching would allow me to do that. The thing is, there will always be people to teach kids in college, but maybe not always people who want to work in the prison system.

In other news, The Green Flash, an online/print journal out of Chicago specializing in flash fiction took one of my poems. It should be up on the site soon, but isn't up yet because the previous issue is still up. But still, go check them out, God knows I'm not the best writer on there.

I think of you often, and want to write more soon.
xoem