Unemployed - With Promise...

This morning I officially woke up unemployed, sort of. I do have a classroom, with a job attached, which will begin this fall, and my stuff is there, and I have a significant degree of confidence that this will also involve a paycheck on or about Aug 30. So... unemployed isn't near as horrible as it could be. It's the getting through two months without a paycheck that is horrendous.

So... what to do now?

Hmmm... well, obviously I'll have more time for blogging, but if the entire source of my content is the ramblings of a 4 year old who calls the television remote control a comote (sounds like commode)... it could get old pretty fast.

I have looked for other both temporary and permanent work, with no luck so far...although I did have a pretty amazing interview the other day. I had applied for a position with Saint Leo University as an academic advisor at the Trenton campus. The weird part was that one of the interviewers, unbeknownst to me in advance, was my current assistant superintendent. Argh.

Now I have to say, he's either one of the nicest people on the face of the earth, or he's got the best poker face in town. He didn't in the slightest way shame me, or give me a hard time for looking for other employment. In fact, when the issue of WHY I'm looking for other work came up, he wasn't even the one asking the question (although I'll admit I found that when I was explaining my reasoning, I was mostly addressing him).

So... why would a person with a promise of a teaching position in the fall, in a great school, with great administration and the absolutely most awesome classroom they've ever had, be looking for a new job?

1. Did I mention previously that I'm taking a $23,000 pay cut in taking the teaching position?
2. Going from assistant principal to teacher is a demotion, even if it is entirely because of funding issues, and due to no fault of my own...and my naturally driven, competitive nature wants to be moving FORWARD, not backward.
3. I've got a daughter (Zabby) who'll be graduating from high school about this time next year, who actually hopes to go to college - and I'm really hoping she'll be able to do so without taking on the kind of debt that I did in order to get where I am, which is not something I can help with unless I'm making enough money to live on, pay my own student loans, AND save something on the side.
4. I have another daughter (Katie), same scenario, just 2 years behind her....
5. Don't even get me started on the 4 year old.

Alas... I'm not going to be getting any other jobs. I've somewhat accepted this fact. After 6 weeks of applications, and searching... there is very little in this area for someone with my education and background, due to the budget cuts which have put a LOT of people like me out of work.

So... I'm adapting a new way of thinking...thanks to Sheryl Crowe - It's not having what you want... it's wanting what you've got.

I want to teach. I want to be poor. Oops...now I'm getting redundant.