I lost the job to someone who had more background teaching the courses that the position was for.  I know it should make me feel better that I was qualified and I interviewed well.  But it doesn’t.  The job market sucks right now–even for teachers.  Especially for teachers of English in a city that has 6 colleges that pump out new teachers each year.  I was optimistic for a period of time, until I realized that a lot of the openings listed were not actual openings but only perceived openings.  Many districts have begun hiring teachers on one-year contracts and so each year those positions come up again as open–even though there was a teacher who was in the position last  year and is probably re-interviewing for the position again.  It’s frustrating when you look at a situation and it looks promising–lots of openings etc, and then the openings tend to be simple formalities.  UGH!

I know I should feel okay that I at least have my part time job at the college teaching and that if I teach two classes each semester it will cover our portion of Noah’s school.  But I really want to get back to full-time teaching and the market is so tight and there are so many new teachers who need jobs as well as the teachers from the disticts that are cutting jobs due to lack of $$$. 

I will keep applying and keep pounding the pavement and looking for jobs in all the places I can and use all the connections I have.  I am at least happy that hubby got a small raise this year and that his employer–Wells Fargo–posted a profit for the first quarter of the year.  His job is certainly one less thing I need to worry about.