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    are dreams just that . . . dreams?

    By marissa | June 26, 2006

    It’s been about a year now, a year since I graduated from college. 

    And still no teaching job.

    I choose teaching as my profession because I think it is important for students to know about the world around them and feel like their voice matters.  I never thought in a million years that it would be this hard to get a teaching job.  I’m not good at math so I couldn’t teach that.  Nor am I good at science.  I’m good at Social Studies and I want to teach it.  I taught it in student teaching and it was like drug. I was addicted.  I loved it.  Then the dream ended.  There is so much red tape to get a teaching job it is not even funny.  It shouldn’t be this hard.  If our country really valued education it would be this hard for a recent college grad who got decent grades for a good university and passed all of those stupid tests to get a job. 

    Due to a lack of health care I am forced into looking for a full time job that is not teaching.  I have been pretty sad about it because I lived and breathed teaching.  I keep asking myself am I giving up?  Do I not have what it takes?  It’s such a mind game.  I hate it.  It makes me even feel sometimes that I can’t talk to some of my friend from college because I haven’t gotten a job yet.  It’s stupid I know, but it is how I fell sometimes.  So today I hit the newspaper want ads looking for something . . . anything full time with benefits. 

    Maybe I’ll save money and go to grad school. 

    There’s always Canada.

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    One Response to “are dreams just that . . . dreams?”

    1. Holiday Says:
      June 27th, 2006 at 8:20 am

      Don’t give up on teaching! I know how you feel–I finished grad school in the spring of 05 and I just got a job for this fall. Illinois is a tough place to be looking for a high school job, but they’re out there, they really are.
      I spent the last year working part time and teaching as an adjunct at a community college (6 hour course), and on Saturdays at Northwestern University’s Center for Talent Development. If you can find little gigs like that it will help you meet people who can help you with the job search.
      Good luck!
      (I found your blog through Superjux, by the way.)

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