What do I do?
I am in a quandary!!! I need a job. I have a single subject and multiple subject teaching credentials, but I haven't worked in 13 years. If I go back to teaching(which at the moment is not a good move, especially in Wisconsin,ha ha)I need to update my credentials. I spent $300 a year ago to take 3 tests and I passed one. I had taken no classes or prep just did it. That tells me 2 things 1.) the tests are in reality a joke,(I barely didn't pass the other two, we are talking by 3to7 points out of 300 possible, passing was 200, I got 197 and 193!)and 2) I am a lot better at taking tests and being a teacher than I realize. My quandary is I can take the test again this June and they offer prep classes for the two parts I missed. Cost $150 and $250 plus cost of retaking two parts I missed. Then I move on to more tests. Or do I go to the local Junior College which as an excellent health program and spend two years getting a degree or credentials for some sort of health care job. There is no promise I could actually finish in 2 years but it is supposed to be possible. I am kind of interested in Occupational Therapy Technician or maybe LVN. But we are looking at even more money to pay for the school, etc. Granted this is possibly the cheapest way to earn these credentials. But there is also awaiting list. What do I do? I am 58 going to be 59 this year. Will there be a job for me in 2 or 3 years? I just want to be able some day to retire with some dignity and I want to move on with my life. I can't seem to get a minimum wage job, but I have no experience for other jobs. I need to make a firm decision by this Friday. This Friday mainly because the soon I get started the easier it may be to accomplish. If I stay with teaching I will try to work in a prison, mainly because they are the only one's that seem to be hiring and because when I did work I taught in a High School Diploma program and most of my students were just out of jail or on their way back! Any who, one nice thing about Prison teaching you have a captive audience and they know it is a privilege not a right so there is virtually no disciple problems. But I have always like any thing to do with medicine and think that is interesting and maybe more lucrative. But when I think about it, how many old nurses have you seen in a hospital? There are always relatively young. What happens to the old ones? Teachers that is another story. There are lots of them around. So before I make my salad to take to the Potluck tonight, I will think real hard about all of this. Tonight is "Surf and Turf"night, but since I don't know how to cook fish or meat very good and it is too expensive for me,I am bringing a salad tonight. I am not good at salads either, but it is easy enough to buy a bag of salad and add to it!HA HA!
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