Saturday, March 4, 2017

Interview?!!!!!


I have been handed every single job I've ever had.  I've never had to apply for a job. That is unusual, I think.  My first job was handed to me when I was fourteen and my neighbors asked me and my friend Kari, their niece, to work in their needlepoint shop downtown.  I worked there for ten years. And then after graduating from college, and going on a mission, I student taught at Ogden High, and was asked to replace a teacher the next year.  There was an interview, and I filled out paper work, but I was handed the job without applying.  I taught for a student-exchange program for one summer--asked to work for the program by an old friend from my ward growing up.  It was a few months and no interview.  And that was the last "job" I've been handed, other than a few baby-sitting gigs, and of course helping Grammy every morning.  No interview or application process there.

But Monday morning at 9:30, I am going to have a "chat--not really an interview" with the director of Greenwood--my boys' school.  The director, Jessie Kidd, asked me at the end of last year if I had any interest in working part time as a reading instructor/tutor, etc.  And when she found out I used to teach high school English, she asked me to think about teaching for them when they get their 8th grade program set-- 2018-19.  I called yesterday and spoke briefly with one of the amazing secretaries, asking her to just put my name on a list of people they might call if they had need of a helper next year.  She was very excited and kind and asked if I would do an interview.  Or a "chat--not really an interview".  

That's how it all happened.  So I sort of have my first interview, sort of.  I didn't apply for anything, but I'm excited.  I think this is a good move for me.  If I can work part time next year while the boys are all in school full time--- at their school, and make a little extra money, and save up for trips and updates and babies-- and improve my teaching/grown-up skills, then why not?  

I wonder what I should wear......My only pantsuit is six sizes too small.  

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