The whole job thing.

i know i need to get my A in G and get out and get a real job. I need the insurance. I need the income. I need the sense of being compensated for what I do.
Suzie Homemaker, I am not. I can do all of the parts necessary, but I have no interest in that as a longterm focus.

My creative energy is at a longtime low, so even doing those kinds of things I love to do gives me no thrill.

There is a limit to how much I can read, on-line or paper.

One day a week of "consultant" isnt enough to keep the budget happy and 'specially dealing with the control freak board member, it does not do my self worth much good.

I am great to have around for the "project" stuff. In the last few weeks I have rewritten one organization's by-laws, written a grant for another organization, and pulled off a major donor event.

I have had people suggest I become a caterer, others sent me some high powered jobs (ones i was not elegible because I am not currently working for the state, and one even suggested I become a financial consultant (don't have the degree for that)

I have spent the last 10 years in and out of different jobs, some I loved, some I hated, but still with the sense of trying to figure out what I wanted to do with the rest of my life.

There were always 2 things I wanted to do with my life....one was to be a parent, the other a teacher. I have done the parenting thing, and now they are on their own....out of the nest. Teaching is something I have always done, and continue to do.....it seems everything i get into, i fall into the teaching, training, support roles....and I enjoy that. But ........