Do I look or do I leap?
Last summer I accepted a teaching contract for a charter school 22 miles from my front door through the back roads of a rural county. On the first day of school I was told that I essentially had two special ed classrooms (self-contained - not resource rooms) in two drastically different types of special education. One classroom were students with cognitive impairment while the other had normal cognition and emotional disturbance. I went from a morning in a classroom where I was being physically aggressed to an afternoon of being emotionally and verbally aggressed. This continued throughout the first semester. The week after Christmas break, I was informed that I was being transferred to a building 11 miles further from my home. I went from a drive with 2 traffic lights to one with 15+ traffic lights. The day in the other building started 30 minutes earlier, which totally disrupted my morning routine. Suddenly I was out of contact with my family and friends. All during the school year, I was being verbally abused by a woman who was allegedly my mentor. Then came COVID 19, and suddenly I was teaching my students with autism and cognitive impairment over the internet. My only goal was that we not lose communication skills over the shut down. Most of my students were available to meet with me, but I was unable to meet with one student for most of the ten weeks. Two of the students lived in a group home, and their staff were not helpful. My two least able students met with me regularly. At the end of the school year, I was informed that I would have three additional students in the fall, two classrooms to cover, and an age gap of 15 years. Then the anti-mentor struck again. Fill out the paperwork this way - and when I did, she complained about it to the point that I thought I was going to have a stroke, my blood pressure was so high.
My dilemma is: Do I go back to this situation in the fall, and risk dying from a stroke, or do I bite the bullet and retire? I'll be 65 in October, and I could choose to stay home. It's a very difficult situation.
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Where is the best place to look for a job, in your opinion?
I have been using all the job boards and going directly through company sites and I am still having trouble getting someone to actually read my resume/application. I am constantly getting ghosted or rejected for jobs I am qualified for.
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I just had a Monthly Review Meeting with my Director at the company I've been working at as a Contract employee for almost 6 months and she said she wants to extend my contract for another month but in the meantime she will be posting my position as a Full time, permanent position (which consists of helping out 5-6 different departments) as soon as it is approved.
I did ask her if it would be possible for me to telework 1-2 days a week on the days that everyone is in the office since there is an online software to answer the phones for the front desk and she told me the position im doing temporary work for is not eligible for telework & that the phone software is "for emergency use only." Also, i mentioned to her that the staffing agency i work for initially told me that i would be able to telework TWICE A WEEK. Its funny how everyone can telework besides me.
I know I'm going to get a phone call from the Recruiter at my staffing agency tomorrow asking me if I want to renew my contract and I really don't want to because I have NO work life balance, suffer from anxiety, am extremely burnt out and am tired of having to drop everything I'm doing at work to cover the phones at the front desk EVERYDAY while everyone else at my job gets to telework 2-3 days a week and I'm forbidden to do so. In addition, the company I'm working for REFUSES to give me an increase in pay ever since I took on multiple duties in different departments. Would it be wrong if I told my Recruiter/Contact person at the agency I work for that "I am no longer Interested in working where I work at now and that I would like to be reassigned to work someone else thT is a better fit for me?" I CANT TAKE THIS ANYMORE!!!?????
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I got laid off and now they want me to train my replacement.
How insensitive can companies get? Getting laid off is tough as it is. Now I have to train my replacement who will do my job for less money. I would love to just leave. How should I handle this?
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Interview Questions | Would the same question come up again in the 3rd round of interviews?
I am in the last round of interviews! Exciting but can't put my hopes up quite yet. My first two interviews had pretty standard questions and I was able to answer them very comfortably and even felt confident (which is rare bc normally i am shaking in my boots).
The second round, they barely asked 3 questions and were basically selling me the role (which I think is a good sign). One of the questions were, "Tell me a time you failed". I answered this as honest as I could and it was well received. However, I don't really have many failure stories as I try not to fail significantly. Maybe small mistakes (as i am writing this, i am thinking small mistakes might be a story I can share, but not sure.)
Next Interview is a Panel interview, do you think I will be asked the "tell me about a time you failed" question again?
Lastly, what are some Panel questions, you've received in the past? Just want to over prep.
Thank you in advance!
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Last week we celebrated World Gratitude Day, and this week is kicked off with World Dream Day.
These aren't fluffy, feel-good days.
Well, they don't need to be, if we give them their proper attention.
Gratitude contributes to our well-being, joy and success. Cultivating more of it on a regular basis has dramatic, positive impacts on our work and life, and it's free and easy to access. If you missed my post about it and how to add more of it to your life -- and why you career will love you for it -- you can read it here: https://lnkd.in/esH9v5qX
In a similar spirit, we have all the power within us to dream big, act on these dreams and support others as they pursue their biggest aspirations.
While this is another free and easy tool to access, how many of our dreams have we accomplished? How many have we forgotten? Dismissed? How many of us have what we consider our dream job? According to research, 90% of us don't!
In today's post on my blog "Reimagine," I share 11 ways to bring your dreams to life and the transformative implications that can have on your work life: https://lnkd.in/eTFFma7w
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