I quit my special ed teaching job
Have I lost my mind? I resigned in June and I still have no job offers. What's wrong with me? Why can't I get a job? Did I just make the biggest mistake of my life? I just couldn't take the stress any more. Teaching is great. The kids are great. I miss them. I miss the camaraderie with some of my parents and colleagues. What I don't miss is the paperwork, the constant stress and deadlines and data collection and progress reporting and lesson planning from scratch with no curriculum framework and bosses who are titty babies or self-important assholes! What am I going to do now? I put in an average of 20 + hours a week applying for jobs, sending emails, following up on emails. I have had half a dozen interviews or the promise of them and no job offers. Every lead I follow is a dead end. Every single one of them! Nobody wants me. What am I going to do? Have a I screwed the pooch? I know I can't go back to th...