thinking about packin it on over to the island

[Jingles]

This has been a crappy year to become a teacher in BC...and it is certainally not the only crappy year ahead for job prospects in my area (English and social studies teachers are notin demand ATM)
I was offered a job 100 miles north of Terrace with benefits and isolation pay...but the town had nothing in it, only a gas station...and so I know in the long winter months I would die of lonliness and insanity-- so I turned the good good money down
Prospects may get better come Spring, but I can't afford to live til then...I already spent last year without a job and now all that student loan debt hangs around my neck like a dead dead albatross

While Vancouver Island is facing much the same thing with its' teaching prospects small northern communities like POrt Hardy and Port McNeill are hiring -- SO I am off ot check it out adn be interviewed on Thursday

If I get the job I suspect I will leave
but the idea of leaving behind the city I LOVE
the bustle of shopping and eating and culture
and all my friends
scares the life out of me

I feel really stuck
and though nothing is forever
it sucks to have to make choices strictly for financial reasons

[mugsy]

^ i dont know how the process works for applying to other provines as some lines may be drawn, but in alberta teachers make more money, and the cost of living is less. (i think the quote was $10,000 more a year)
i think you're a brave brave woman to even begin the process of thinking about leaving this place.

[Veni*C]

its a toss up... the island is BEAUTIFUL .... i realize that everytime i go back to visit my family.. now i know u dont have family there... but i moved out here last year by myself with NO family here..and i know theres a difference cause i moved out to the big city... but u may even want to go just for the experience see what its like to do the opposite..... and like u said.. nothing is set in stone...

good luck hun. :)

[charly]

nothing like that is permanent. having to do something you aren't so sure about because of the money is always hard, but it pays off. sometimes you need to make those sacrifices to make the future better.

it'll be a change, but not a permanent one. and being that it's the island, you aren't super far away. you'll still have long weekends, and holidays and such to come back over and visit.

g'luck :)

[Jingles]

Well. I am leaving
I got the job
I have 2 weeks to get my life in order and off I go
for 3 months

weird.

[diva]

This will be a good thing, I can tell.
Sometimes you have to do stuff like that for long term gain. I think a little birdie told me that once. ;)

I promise to come and visit. Promise.

[that was me that called, just so you know. my voice is pretty fucked up right now]

[Jingles]

I didn't even hear the phone...weird..I should check my messages!