After picking up the pieces from last week's job interview choke, I feel slightly more relaxed. I've got 2-3 interviews coming up next week. British Head keeps trying to convince me to stay for another year.
Today, a new wrinkle -- Private School Up the Block got my resume from the search firm that I halfheartedly filled out an online application in January with. They really would like to meet with me to try to get me to make the move.
Why make a lateral move? I spoke to their Head today and told her that at this point, I'm either looking at making the move to the public schools or staying where I am. She understood but told me to call them if something changed in the next few weeks. She had already spoken to British Head earlier in the day about me. They know each other because British Head had worked at the Private School Up the Block for many years before coming to my school.
Not that this changes anything too much, but could this be the ticket that gets Red Pants to reconsider and go out of his way to convince me to stay? It is one thing to lose a teacher to the public schools, an entirely different one to lose one to the other neighborhood private school. Oh man, this is too much. Hell, maybe I should go check out the other school. Maybe I'll love it. But I should probably just stick with my original plan and make the move to the public sector. Either way, British Head is having a good time making my decision even harder.
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School up the block, more money?
You will not like that place.
Believe me.
debbie,
don't know.
mactech,
i don't know anything about it. just generally amused by the latest turn of events.
If you can use it to your advantage, great. But no one I know has ever liked that place well enough to even stay in consideration for the job after the interview. That was a convoluted sentence. I mean they didn't like it.
I live my life by Weasel's golden rule: if everyone else hates it, it must be pretty good.
However, that is no basis for making job decisions. Please disregard.
If Red Pants decides to make sweet monetary love to you, don't forget that you'll still be a bird in a (albeit gilded) cage, Like Vanessa Paradis in that perfume commercial a few years back. You education courtesan, you.
If you go to a public school, the kids are unruly and bring weapons and attack teachers. They use the money at public schools to buy metal detectors rather than books. I would stay at the private school!
Whenever you say British Head I can't help thinking of that guy Anthony Head, who played Giles, Buffy's watcher and the school librarian on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I keep picturing him talking to you with a book in his hand.
jim,
be honest with yourself about what you really think about when you hear the phrase "british head."
Coz we take our false teef out to make it more luverly, oi oi!
Signed,
A cockney (pwharp! Naughty, missus- not that sort of cock! Oi oi!)
Listmaker, OK, I admit I have a dirty mind. But I purposely submitted that comment to show that I don't always have to take the low road. Though it is fun.
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