
Oct 07, 2017, 05:52 PM
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Member Since: Jun 2017
Location: California
Posts: 79
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Originally Posted by cielpur
I gave you great job advice (I think) on your other thread but you completely ignored it. Why? Join a teacher forum for insight and advice about job hunting, and for emotional support from other teachers who've been fired from their teaching jobs too. Why not? Also, like I advised, your best bet to finding another teaching job is to substitute teach in a long-term assignment, so that you and the school staff and students can figure out if you'd be a good fit for a permanent teaching job there, if and when a teaching job becomes available.
I get that your upset and frustrated with being fired. But not everyone is going to offer you the advice you want, the way you want it. If you already know your dad is a doomsdayer and he doesn't work in academia like you do, why would you seek advice/emotional support from him? If he doesn't validate your feelings or offer you empathy or sympathy, then he is not someone you should ever go to for emotional support when you need it.
My mother is mentally ill, and has never been a source of emotional support for me my entire life. And when I've had traumatic life experiences, I find other people to go to for emotional support, who have shown me that they care about me in that way.
Right now, you need to surround yourself with people who work in education, whether that's in person or online via teacher forums, who know your line of work, who've been fired from teaching jobs, who can offer you empathetic support and job-searching tips that make sense for your education industry. Asking someone who works in retail for example, for advice how you can get a teaching job, makes no sense. So, that is why I advise you to seek online forums where teachers go to chat with each other. That is probably your best online source for job searching tips.
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I appreciate your advice in the other thread, and I just haven't gotten around to responding to it yet. Thank you for your comment. Getting a long-term substitute position is one option, and there are other options. I already have one part-time job that pays well for what it requires. I've interviewed for many new part-time jobs in the last couple weeks, and I think I will be hired as an adjunct college teacher in a couple weeks. The background check is just finishing up now, so I think I have this new teaching job for two courses. I am exploring all of my options, including long-term substitute teaching.
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