{"id":522,"date":"2013-08-29T18:00:16","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T18:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/?p=522"},"modified":"2013-08-29T18:00:16","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T18:00:16","slug":"actively-looking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/2013\/08\/29\/actively-looking\/","title":{"rendered":"Actively Looking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well shoot, the last district in the Bay Area (and the last one I applied to) just started school yesterday.\u00a0 They did not call me for an interview.\u00a0 I must now hope that some district somewhere needs more teachers based on increased enrollment.<\/p>\n<p>There really hasn\u2019t been much in the way of open teacher positions this week so far so I updated my CA community college registry info and started applying directly to colleges.\u00a0 This does not mean that there are open teacher positions for colleges either \u2013 there aren\u2019t \u2013 but I thought I\u2019d be more intentional with my job search.\u00a0 Up to this point, I have only been scanning the college sites; now I have put my application info into their systems for pool and adjunct positions, even if they don\u2019t yet exist.<\/p>\n<p>I had a friend tell me about a potential opening at a private college prep Jr\/Hi School yesterday.\u00a0 I would love to teach at such a place, but they generally don\u2019t pay well.\u00a0 Still, I noticed two things when on their site: 1) I am in no way qualified to teach the open position (AP Physics); 2) The place doesn\u2019t have an Art or Humanities department and they could use another history teacher as well\u2026 and maybe a Music person.\u00a0 I can fit the bill for all those positions.\u00a0 Perhaps I will get a call from this place after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well shoot, the last district in the Bay Area (and the last one I applied to) just started school yesterday.\u00a0 They did not call me for an interview.\u00a0 I must now hope that some district somewhere needs more teachers based &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/2013\/08\/29\/actively-looking\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":523,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions\/523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}