You know, I have a lot of options for my post-current teaching job, and more are bubbling under the surface. I saw my former Americorps supervisor at the library, and she mentioned that she is quietly looking for work near her boyfriend (yay! she has a great boyfriend!) who lives an hour and a half away. “If I do leave, though, I’ll email you because I’m sure they would LOVE to have you here.” (I never worked FOR the library, but my office was IN the library, so I spent a year there and got to know the staff, etc.) Then, yesterday, LLBean announced plans for a call center to be opened about four minutes from my house, and I thought “OOH, I could totally be a corporate computer trainer, and I have all that call center experience from Envisionet, etc . . .” I asked one of our tech people here, who used to work at Bean’s in Freeport, what she thought and she said “SEND YOUR RESUME!
Send it now, to Freeport, and tell them what you’re thinking you could do, you have the personality they look for; send it!” I have my meeting at the university on Tuesday. I am starting the science club, whose final product is to do a Challenger Learning Center mission, which is another one of those “make sure they know my name, just in case,” options.

It’s been a month since I really, truly said to myself “I’m done. This is it.” And I plugged my nose and closed my eyes and have jumped — and I think I’m going to resurface in good shape.

(And, as an aside, any insider LLBean employee info would be interesting to ponder. It’s a long shot, but what the hell. Email me.)