Some news...
There are no exclamation marks in the title of this post. And for good reason. The news in question is of minor significance. It should not be construed as a major milestone, some grand tectonic turn of events in my post-baccalaureate life. It's a nibble on the line.
I've been invited to enter the Kaplan teacher training program. But first I have to take a diagnostic exam and score at or above the 90th percentile. If I succeed, I go through five weeks of training (4 hours of class and 2-3 hours of preparation per week). Upon completing training, I get to teach a Kaplan SAT prep course, either as a private tutor or as a classroom teacher.
By playing this news down I'm not trying to be coy. There was no ecstatic jumping up and down when I got the email with the news. It certainly wasn't altogether unexpected. If anything, I was a little bummed to think of all the time I wasted when I could have been doing this kind of thing for months already.
Once the (paid) training begins I'll no longer unemployed, technically. I'll be making money and clocking hours and all the rest. But there won't be much of an internal change.
This Kaplan gig isn't the ineffable thing that I've been waiting for. It's a BandAid to staunch the bleeding of a five-and-a-half-month-old wound.
At this point I don't anticipate much of a change in the tone or content of the writing on this site. I think it'll still be a while before I emerge from this tangle of thorns.
I've been invited to enter the Kaplan teacher training program. But first I have to take a diagnostic exam and score at or above the 90th percentile. If I succeed, I go through five weeks of training (4 hours of class and 2-3 hours of preparation per week). Upon completing training, I get to teach a Kaplan SAT prep course, either as a private tutor or as a classroom teacher.
By playing this news down I'm not trying to be coy. There was no ecstatic jumping up and down when I got the email with the news. It certainly wasn't altogether unexpected. If anything, I was a little bummed to think of all the time I wasted when I could have been doing this kind of thing for months already.
Once the (paid) training begins I'll no longer unemployed, technically. I'll be making money and clocking hours and all the rest. But there won't be much of an internal change.
This Kaplan gig isn't the ineffable thing that I've been waiting for. It's a BandAid to staunch the bleeding of a five-and-a-half-month-old wound.
At this point I don't anticipate much of a change in the tone or content of the writing on this site. I think it'll still be a while before I emerge from this tangle of thorns.
posted by temporarily unemployed at 17:01
3 Comments:
Hey, good news nonetheless. Are you taking the new SAT or the old school one? Also, when you get your Kaplan job, this time around I will ask what your SAT score was, to make up for all of us never talking about such things in college, much to your chagrin.
Congrats! :-)
<3, L
oh what, now that you're somewhat employed you're too good to update??? they have computers up there near the ski slopes, Mister. Some of us are depending on you.
~C
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