Since there's no one else I can really talk to about my frustrations, I come here to release it...and this is going to sound like a very selfish post, so bear with me...it may be the pregnancy hormones too that aren't helping me.
Dh came home last night from volunteering for a fundraiser football game and told me that the school he wants to be at (here in our town, where they pulled the PE position) has openings for a special ed teacher, a math teacher, and a librarian teaching position.
Two of the guys that have a lot of influence at this school (and were two of the guys that gave him recommendation letters) told him that maybe he should take the CSET for any of these positions, and apply for them, in hopes that they'll bring back the PE position and they can just easily transfer him from one position to the PE position.
I feel like we've been going back and forth with this whole applying, interviewing, getting hopes up, stuff for the past two years and it's not just affecting him, which I don't think he realizes.
Job security is KEY right now in this economy. Just a few weeks ago, he signed papers at his present school, that he'll be coming back for the next school year, which means he'll be tenured <----this is the word we've both been waiting to hear since he got hired. But if he decides to apply to this school, he has to start all over again, and wait another two years for full job security, which makes me SO nervous right now, especially since we have a little one on the way.
I asked him, what makes him so sure that they'll even bring back the PE position next year, if they wouldn't this year? The administration will probably see that the current PE teachers did a good job in handling the extra students from that released PE position and will probably never bring it back. Then what? He's stuck being a teacher for a subject he never wanted to do.
I think i'd be okay with this if we weren't having a baby at this moment, but this is added stress that I just don't want right now.
And apparently he won't be getting a pay cut, but will work out to the same amount, IF he takes his Masters final exam (yes, he went all the way through his Master's program, and didn't take the one test that gives you your Masters degree
) So all he has to do is take it, and he'll get his raise.
Thanks for letting me vent here. I'm so frustrated with what's happening, even more frustrated because he won't really find out what he's going to do until late next week, which leaves another week of uncertainty. I KNEW I shouldn't have gotten excited and made plans for WDW just yet!