I passed the MTEL! Unofficially. The internet results say I met the minimum requirement, but it doesn't tell me the exact score. Hopefully I'll get it in the mail so it will be official. But now I feel like I want a real teaching job and not one of the paraprofessional jobs I'm interviewing for. I'd rather make $30,000 a year than $18,000 ( Read more... )

I had an interview at the Green Bean in Northampton this morning. It was a working interview, similar to the one at cafe evolution, except I was there for about 20 minutes as opposed to 3 hours. I did what they asked me to do, cleared off and set tables, got milk, filled the half & half container. Everyone was really nice. She said she'd call me ( Read more... )

My glasses broke this morning. I was trying to clean the lens on my shirt, and they snapped in half. I glued them back together with some super glue, but I can't wear broken glasses forever. I went to the eyewear place in downtown and they said it would take 7-10 business days. I didn't want to wait that long, and the guy there wasn't very friendly ( Read more... )

I had an interview at a preschool in Amherst yesterday. I might be able to sub there until their schoo year ends in July. The position I applied for doesn't start until August, which doesn't really help me and I'd like to be able to get a teaching job in the fall. I have an interview at NCYF in Springfield as a youth counselor, but I forgot to ( Read more... )

Today was the last day of after school. My last day ever. It was a fun, hectic, unorganized day. We had some pizza (party pizzas are $12 at Big Y on Fridays!), decorated t-shirts, then half the kids got really into making up acts for the talent show while all the younger kids ran wild and asked me when we were going outside every 15 seconds. The ( Read more... )

There are a couple English teacher opening in Northampton, which would be nice. I want to apply but I have to answer silly questions. The hardest one is this ( Read more... )

I just registered for the MTEL. Yep. I really did just register to take the MTEL for English (8-12). Yep, July 19th. I should have probably not done that on a whim. I'm probably going to be in the UMass library studying during all my free time for the next month. Because I really just registered to take that test in a month ( Read more... )

This has been a great weekend! Here's the rundown ( Read more... )

I sent Hasbro my stuff on Wednesday. Caroline said this was a rushed hiring process and that her boss was already doing phone interviews. I've yet to hear anything. I don't understand why I haven't found a job yet. I've been applying all over the place, having interviews, doing what I think I'm supposed to be doing. I know I'm awesome. My friends, ( Read more... )

A friend of mine who works at Hasbro as a copywriter just informed me of a summer internship. I'm super excited and can't really wait to apply. I don't want to get too excited, because so far no jobs have worked out for me, but hopefully since it's an internship (paid) and I have a friend who works there it might improve my chances. This would be a ( Read more... )