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Apr. 10th, 2003 01:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gmonkey42I've decided I need to put more stuff in my journal if I want anyone to read it. So... stuff... the thing is, I'm not really doing anything at the moment besides working on my website. I got my green belt in Tae Kwon Do. I like sparring. Now my classmate Kiki has a low green belt (one rank below mine) so she can start sparring now. That's cool. I need more people to spar with. My friend Sina started at the same school pretty recently and he just got an orange belt. Orange belts aren't allowed to spar.
Dang, I just called up the teacher credential program where I'm applying and what they said was pretty discouraging. They never got one of my letters of recommendation, so I just e-mailed the professor so he can fax it to them. And they said it'll be really competitive this year, which would normally be ok but I have no teaching experience. I just finished university! They came to campus to recruit people and it was only after I applied that I found out that the program really isn't aimed at people who just graduated, it's aimed at people who've been substitute teachers for several years. They told me on the phone today that it'd be a good idea to get a job substitute teaching immediately. Well screw that. They also said, and this pissed me off, that everyone whose Subject Matter Competency (CSET) scores hadn't come in yet (and I fall into that category) would normally have been rejected but this year they're holding the district hiring conference later than usual, so they'll consider us. The recruiter guy who came to the UCD career fair assured us that we could take the test in March (when I took it) and we'd still get in. Dammit. Stupid crappy job market. And that headhunter who called me about two weeks ago offering me a possible job opportunity in a biotech company has never replied to my e-mails.
Dang, I just called up the teacher credential program where I'm applying and what they said was pretty discouraging. They never got one of my letters of recommendation, so I just e-mailed the professor so he can fax it to them. And they said it'll be really competitive this year, which would normally be ok but I have no teaching experience. I just finished university! They came to campus to recruit people and it was only after I applied that I found out that the program really isn't aimed at people who just graduated, it's aimed at people who've been substitute teachers for several years. They told me on the phone today that it'd be a good idea to get a job substitute teaching immediately. Well screw that. They also said, and this pissed me off, that everyone whose Subject Matter Competency (CSET) scores hadn't come in yet (and I fall into that category) would normally have been rejected but this year they're holding the district hiring conference later than usual, so they'll consider us. The recruiter guy who came to the UCD career fair assured us that we could take the test in March (when I took it) and we'd still get in. Dammit. Stupid crappy job market. And that headhunter who called me about two weeks ago offering me a possible job opportunity in a biotech company has never replied to my e-mails.
