So as I continue to look for work here, I have friends who have been hired (hooray!). That is the good news. The bad (?) news is that they have to go out of the country to find work. One very close friend is headed back to Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam for what I jokingly call her "second tour of duty". Another friend with whom I attended grad school is headed to Central America.
So yes, I could continue to whine about how unfair it is that we have all spent $40K on our Master's degrees and have little to show for it except for bills, but one of the positives about this is that these friends will have developed a "cultural competence" that is one of the standard questions on most teacher applications. And I, by extension, get to share in those experiences as they share their experiences with me.
Another positive for me is that I am able to take classes during the year that will go towards maintaining my license. I just signed up for a new class, so I am excited to start working on that. (via CE Credits Online)
So just trying to keep a positive outlook as friends fly out of the country and I find out that 1,000 people have applied to the same positions I have. (That is another posting.)
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