Unemployed (almost) once more

[paleolithical]

Final day at the second of my two jobs. IIRC I technically work until the 16th, so that's when I'll have to go and get listed as unemployed in order to qualify for benefits. There is still some money to come, but a 95% (30+65%) spring term and noe during fall makes life complex over the summer. The 30% job 90 minutes drive away want me back fall.

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[ragnvaeig]

All the last-minute-ness sounds frustrating. I'm sorry to hear that. :/

[paleolithical]

I think it is part bitterness; I have finally found something to do that I really think I could enjoy doing for the next 20 years or so (and that it is possible -- within an everyday definition of the word -- to make a living doing), and then be unable to find a place to do it. And the job market is bleak here for upper level teachers; too few students the next 10 years, and the old folks are not retiring quite yet. After a few "sorry, no room for you next term" I'm starting to become desperate.

Combine with a few other frustrations in life, a spring that has put the proverbial wall *very* close, and a bit of a mid-life "is this all?" feeling and the result is inevitable. Depressing moaning and self-pity. Ignore me.