And so, there’s another job I’ve been tipped off to. DAMMIT.

The pros:

• If I were EVER to work in a school again, this would be the ONLY position I’d take.
• It’s in the Middlest of Middle schools (waves to mainegirl: RB)
• It’s in THE school that Marilyn has said, since I’ve known her, that I would LOVE and would love me
• It’s an academic year schedule
• The district is the 2nd or 3rd highest paying in the area. 
• I have connections & references familiar with the school: Marilyn and at least one classmate

The cons:

• It’s a school job. I’d be making just 5k more a year than I did my last year teaching.
• It starts in September.
• Which means infant daycare, which is ~ $500 a month, so after that, it’s less than what I would be making compared to my last teaching salary.
• 4 months seems so sooooon to leave the baby for full time work. Because it’s a school job, there is no option for flex time or working from home; it would be 5 days a week. Childcare would have to be paid even on the weeks I didn’t work, and I don’t even KNOW how summer vacation would work, but I would imagine I’d have to pay to keep whatever spot I had in childcare.
• Schools seem to be really hard for pumping purposes. You don’t have an office, you don’t have a lunch hour, or the ability to take 20-30 minutes to find a private space to pump. That’s really, really important to me.

I guess I just wish it was a year from now, I feel like at a year I’d be able to not pump, childcare would be less expensive and easier to find, I will know what motherhood has done to me and my brain to know if I’d want to even have this job. I mean, another district just axed their tech people, who are really great at what they do, and have the experience already, so who knows if I’d even GET IT. But this would be such an easy decision if it were A YEAR FROM NOW. Just like the last job that I was tipped off to, if it had been even 6 months later, I would have applied. (That one was doing prof dev with teachers, through a private company, so it would have certainly meant starting before September, and running inservices over the summer…. but that one was part time/flex and I probably could have found a private room to pump in.) 

I know people do it, all of it, all the time. There are lots of people that have to take their babies to childcare at 6weeks, 16 weeks should be Just Fine, right? But I just don’t know how it would work for US.

I mean, I need to do my resume anyway, for a class, so I might as well send it in, interview, see how it goes. Finishing my degree in the fall would be fine, the practicum is usually done concurrent with a teaching job ANYWAY, I’m sort of an odd duck that I’ll need a placement.  The other class is an evening class, so it’s not a concern. I would finish my degree.  Anyway. I just wish it was a YEAR from now! Sigh.