"What next?" has been my mantra my entire life. I love the challenges and opportunities inherent in change. New people, new experiences, new things to learn. Thinking about the many positions posted helped me look past this "terminal degree," which has an awful air of finality about it, toward the phase of my career
I do have a tenure track position at MSCD when I am finished and am committed to teaching there two years. I love the teaching, the students, but the element I am least anticipating is being "tenure track". I see the stress and pressures, the political nature of working toward tenure and I simply do not want to go there. It affects the way people interact with each other in a way I never saw--or recognized--in the public schools.
So, University of Guam appealed to me for two reasons: it would be a vastly different setting AND it is a three-year position. When the time is here for me to begin to look seriously, those two factors will heavily weigh in my decisions.
So, what next? Bring me that horizon.
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Your zest comes through each time you blog. And you don't waffle so we know where you stand. This blog is a strong representation of you. I hope you stay with teaching teachers -- they gain a lot from your knowledge and experience. The tenure issue won't change you because you have the strength to walk away if it isn't working.
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