Whee!

[go_team]

Ok, so it's been a busy phone morning. I was talking to joyquality on IM and got interrupted no fewer than twice in the course of an hour, which is some kind of record, since usually we get that many calls maybe in a week. Maybe. One of the calls was for Peter about homework he's working on with some classmates, but the other was for me, and it was good news! The people from the tutoring job I applied to last week want to interview me! Whee!

So the deal is they're a private tutoring company that specializes in helping learning-disabled kids with their coursework so they can stay in public school instead of going to private school. They work with high school and college students, and the director of the high school student program is going off to a Ph.D. program in the fall, so they need someone to train to take her place, and that might be me. I'd be doing a little tutoring, a little scheduling, a little talking to parents and students to help them figure out what they need and what we can provide, and it sounds like a lot of responsibility but like it could also be very cool. And it's not like I don't have years of experience working with learning disabled students, what with being a full-fledged member of Team "get my severely dyslexic brother through middle and high school" for 5+ years.... and I actually kinda like tutoring. Standing in front of a class sucks my soul, but working one-on-one with students who actually want to learn (or are at least under parental pressure to get their money's worth out of a session) is cool with me.

So dude! Two job interviews in a week, for jobs that actually sound pretty cool, after months and months of nothing! About time, I say, and also yay!

Ok, now that I've gloated about this a bit I can go back to searching the classifieds for places to live (crossing out all the ones that say "no pets" sure does make life easier....) I should also return the key to the place we looked at yesterday, and tell the realtor "thanks but no thanks". And finally it's about time I wrote Personal Journaling a query letter about my bookmaking article. Whee!

Comments

[thrasymachos.livejournal.com]

great news about the interviews! I'm sure you'll ace 'em.

[goteam.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I feel like getting to the interview stage is the hard part. I can be smart and interested in the projects and get along with the people interviewing me as long as they're not totally evil; I just suck at the half-blindfolded "um, I think I might be good at this job but I'm kinda guessing based on a 3-line description" process. So now I'm really psyched. Yay!

[chocolatesmudge.livejournal.com]

Congrats on another interview!! Way cool. Good luck with the Personal Journaling query too. They'd be fools not to snatch that article right up (but still leave you the appropriate reprint rights :).

[goteam.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately in browsing their online back issues, I found out that Personal Journaling ran a "how-to" article on handmade journals in February. Dang! Better try somewhere else, I guess...

[qousqous.livejournal.com]

Yay interviews!

Tutoring sounds pretty cool. I've done a (very) little bit of one-on-one tutoring, and I rather enjoy it.

Good luck.

[goteam.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's funny. I hate standing in front of a class or other audience unless I'm 100% certain I know and like my subject material better than they do, but working one-on-one with students is cool.

[dragonmudd.livejournal.com]

w00t! Congratulations!

Go team!

[keturn.livejournal.com]

Hooray for people calling you for interviews! Speaking of which, good luck with your Thursday interview.

[goteam.livejournal.com]

Yay! Thank you! I saw this message right before I headed out the door, and it made me happy. Thanks Kevin!