I will not be going back to the school I was teaching at last year. My feelings are mixed. Teaching is not my passion. It just seemed logical for me that with my background working with kids at the Children's Home and my degree in English (not even English ed., nice degree right) that teaching was available and left me alot of time to work on my manuscript. For four years I taught. It was public school, some schools were better than others, but now I find myself at a crossroads. Here is where I take a turn.
Job A is working at a christian school teaching PE a couple of academic classes coaching the basketball team and taking a 10k paycut. I'd be "in the ministry" so to speak or "full time christian service" whateverthatmeanscauseshouldn'twebedoingthatanywayinourdailylives?
Job B is a writing job. I would be a business porposal writer at an office situated directly across from St. Pete Beach and I would be able to wear shorts and sandals to work. It is not a paycut and may, in fact, be a pay raise. It is something new, something that will help me become more disciplined in my writing perhaps and offers all the perks of a regualr job (401k, etc.).
Tomorrow I meet with the pastor of the christian school. That job is pretty much mine if I want it. Job A that is.
Job B requires another interview than the initial phone interview I had with a contracted recruiter.
Thoughts?
I have been editing my manuscript and I am working on some new plot lines and have eliminated all members of the Jade Council but 1, Preston. They were unecessary and now the story reads a bit cleaner. I just have to work out all the holes I created by moving them out but I have enough characters in the manuscript that I can assign their roles away without much trouble.
4 comments:
hmmm....im curious how much of your mss is left. ;)
Take Job B if you can get it imo. The paycut and the no-pants thing could be annoying. BUT, if that's the way God wants you to go, then do it. But Pharisaical rules and a paycut are not something you need. . .considering you guys have a hard time making it to the two most important events of the year anyway.
Conclusion: Don't take the job if it means you aren't coming to Christmas.
Since God isn't going to tell you, Matt...if I were you I'd go with job B. Simple: NO PAY CUT, NEW, SHORTS, BEACH, WRITING...no brainer.
All I can say is follow your passion. God created you the way he did for a reason. Money means a lot, but not everything. Being at peace and being pumped to do what you do is a great thing.
Even though I had hard times teaching, I would probably do it again in a heartbeat. However, don't feel like you have to be in ministry to be used. Everyone can be used where they are if they allow themselves to be.
I envy you. Two great opportunities and a new manuscript. I had just started in the old one when I heard you were re-writing, so I quit. Please send me this one and, so I can still feel involved and can be placed at the beginning of the book in the "thank you's"
"NO PAY CUT, NEW, SHORTS, BEACH, WRITING...no brainer" That about sums it up for me too...
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