Maybe what would help is to take a couple weeks off from the job-hunting, especially if you're getting stressed and unhappy; I personally suck at making decisions under those circumstances (although I also know people who can pull themselves together--alas, I'm not one of 'em), and if you're okay at your current job for at least a little longer, the time off really may be the best thing so you can sit back, NOT think about it, and be refreshed to think about it in a better frame of mind.
One of the things I regret was that the one full-time job I held down before, y'know, spawning, I took because of in-law pressure. Circumstances made it almost impossible for me to do jobsearching in time for the regular school year to begin, so I was figuring on substituting, acclimating to Boston, and checking out the local school districts. Instead, when I was offered a full-time partway-through-the-year position specifically to replace a teacher who had completely let discipline/sanity lapse in all his classes, I did what was wrong for me as a first-year, and took the job, and ended up quitting three months later because it did get that bad. I would have been better off waiting out the year, despite the nagging, and going to a school that was a better fit for me, and starting out with my own classroom for the get-go instead of someone else's out-of-control kids. :-]
Moral of the story: do not let pressure make you jump into a situation that will be not-so-good for you.
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Fri, Aug. 27th, 2004 01:28 pm (UTC)Maybe what would help is to take a couple weeks off from the job-hunting, especially if you're getting stressed and unhappy; I personally suck at making decisions under those circumstances (although I also know people who can pull themselves together--alas, I'm not one of 'em), and if you're okay at your current job for at least a little longer, the time off really may be the best thing so you can sit back, NOT think about it, and be refreshed to think about it in a better frame of mind.
One of the things I regret was that the one full-time job I held down before, y'know, spawning, I took because of in-law pressure. Circumstances made it almost impossible for me to do jobsearching in time for the regular school year to begin, so I was figuring on substituting, acclimating to Boston, and checking out the local school districts. Instead, when I was offered a full-time partway-through-the-year position specifically to replace a teacher who had completely let discipline/sanity lapse in all his classes, I did what was wrong for me as a first-year, and took the job, and ended up quitting three months later because it did get that bad. I would have been better off waiting out the year, despite the nagging, and going to a school that was a better fit for me, and starting out with my own classroom for the get-go instead of someone else's out-of-control kids. :-]
Moral of the story: do not let pressure make you jump into a situation that will be not-so-good for you.