Cross all appendages!
Aug. 30th, 2004 08:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
judecorpIn the continuing saga of my professional life, I am becoming pretty successful at finding things to like about my job. I like the families (for the most part), I like the flexibility, and I like playing with babies and kids. Do I want to be a preschool teacher, though? No, not really, not in the long run. Do I want to always make little bits of money? Also no, not unless I feel like I'm doing big deal social justice work, which this most certainly is not.
Last night I listened to my high school friend Jessica (who I think is one of my biggest cheerleaders) go on and on about how smart I am and how I need to get back into academia and be a big fat nerd forever and ever amen. So on a whim, last night when I got home I applied for this Assistant Data Coach job with Boston Plan for Excellence (which involves public education reform). In my previous life (pre-social work), I was a researcher with a small grant-funded research organization inside the University of Maine College of Education, where I got paid very little but got to write reports and stuff. It was kind of like the cool parts of being a student without the annoying homework parts, plus paycheck. And I got to tool around the internet quite a bit, and sit in an office. How novel!
The real reason I applied for this job is not some overwhelming urge to dive back into research, but the $45K-$55K salary range. Dear god in heaven, to make that kind of money. It would solve some MAJOR financial woes /and/ give us a lot of leeway to save a bunch of money for Baby Fever. If I could score $50K, my god. I don't even know. That is so much money to me. So yeah, last night I e-mailed a resume and cover letter, and today there was a message from them on my home answering machine wanting me to call back to schedule an interview! Woohah!
The one real downer of the thing is that it's only guaranteed for one year (grant-funded, like my last research position)... although the short attention span part of me thinks that's even better. HA! (And the part about having to be available Sept. 10th... I think my current job would wig a little bit. Yup.)
Last night I listened to my high school friend Jessica (who I think is one of my biggest cheerleaders) go on and on about how smart I am and how I need to get back into academia and be a big fat nerd forever and ever amen. So on a whim, last night when I got home I applied for this Assistant Data Coach job with Boston Plan for Excellence (which involves public education reform). In my previous life (pre-social work), I was a researcher with a small grant-funded research organization inside the University of Maine College of Education, where I got paid very little but got to write reports and stuff. It was kind of like the cool parts of being a student without the annoying homework parts, plus paycheck. And I got to tool around the internet quite a bit, and sit in an office. How novel!
The real reason I applied for this job is not some overwhelming urge to dive back into research, but the $45K-$55K salary range. Dear god in heaven, to make that kind of money. It would solve some MAJOR financial woes /and/ give us a lot of leeway to save a bunch of money for Baby Fever. If I could score $50K, my god. I don't even know. That is so much money to me. So yeah, last night I e-mailed a resume and cover letter, and today there was a message from them on my home answering machine wanting me to call back to schedule an interview! Woohah!
The one real downer of the thing is that it's only guaranteed for one year (grant-funded, like my last research position)... although the short attention span part of me thinks that's even better. HA! (And the part about having to be available Sept. 10th... I think my current job would wig a little bit. Yup.)
