I have a new job!

It is amazing how quickly my life has turned around. Two weeks ago I was miserable. I didn’t want to go into work at all. I used to bitch and whine and generally carry on about how unhappy I was. The I decided to do something about it.

Thinking it was too late to get a job as a full-time teacher (most teaching appointments are done a term in advance and at this point it was a week until school went back) I sent off my CV with a cover letter to every school in the area asking for relief work. I fixed up my teaching portfolio to demonstrate more of my skills as a teacher. I also checked the Catholic Education jobs board, the government schools jobs board and websites like seek.com. I was determined that if anything was advertised I would apply for it and I would get it.

It happened that a job was advertised.

At first I was hesitant. Was this really what I wanted? Then I thought about how miserable I had been at work lately, how happy I had been at the prospect of teaching again, and how excited I had been at re-writing my teaching portfolio. This was the right decision, every part of me was saying so.

I went to the interview and nailed it. I had a bit of a self sabotaging session on the way to the interview which thankfully Ben was able to drag me out of before I ruined this opportunity.

So here I am two weeks into teaching at a new school. I still can’t believe it has all happened so fast. My life is starting to turn around slowly and I am starting to feel happy again. The best part of it is, is that it has been me who has made this change. I had the determination and I did it!

I even get paid maternity leave at this job, if we do try again!

Image by SuperKimbo in BKK (flickr)