Like a Boss
2018 brings with it a huge new challenge. In a few weeks time I’m due to start my first full time, USA, teaching job. That’s right ladies and gentlemen, a real life, grown up, job.
Shit is about to get real. Suddenly, I find myself trying to organise full time childcare and navigate all my old teaching files and lesson plans. I’m busy labelling the million keys I’ve been given for my new school instead of watching cookery programmes because there’s nothing more embarrassing than a teacher who can’t even get into her classroom. It’s a bit like when your teacher used to put on a VHS and it was never in the right place or worse, the leads weren’t plugged in right. Awful. Painful to watch and the last thing I need to be worrying about on my first day.
Anyway, I digress. After spending the last three years struggling to feel completely fulfilled being at home with the kids, I had finally let it go and was focused on the boys and relaxing about my career...then there it was. A job advertisement and some phone calls from teachers I know urging me to apply. Fate and the universe challenged me once again...’Oooohh so you think you’ve let it go do you...? Let’s see shall we....?’
The long and short of it is, an opportunity came up that I just couldn’t miss. I interviewed, some references I have said some nice things about me to the Principal and they thought I was the right fit. Just like that, I was employed. Suddenly, the idea of going back to work was now a concrete thing. Something that is actually going to happen, very, very soon.
So things are going to change. Drastically. My boys are going to have to adjust to a completely different situation, they’ve got to get to know new people and to trust in them when they feel tired or sad. So do I. Handing over my boys to someone new is going to be the biggest challenge of all. Getting used to not being there for every moment in their lives is going to be a very strange feeling. I know though, that they’ll be fine, I’ll be fine. I know that millions of women all over the world do it every day. I know that my mum worked and I turned out pretty ok and that for me to feel completely happy, I need a career in my life. So, it’s time to go back.
It does feel a little bit like the job kind of found me really but sometimes, we all need a little friendly nudge to get things moving.
2018, you’re going to be a whole new kind of adventure, I’m ready. Let’s do it. Like a boss.









