Time for a change?

AndyM · Aug 20, 2005

MrsAndyM has been offered a job in the eastern panhandle of West Virginia. The parent company of the company I work for has a division 30 miles away, so everything could work out. However, they want her to start in six days. /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

We thought it would be fun to move someplace new and start fresh, but that's just not enough time. I was going to stay behind for a couple of months to get the house sold, etc., but 6 days just isn't enough time to get her moved to a new town four hours away.

NewToy · Aug 20, 2005

Sounds like you have your mind made up already.
Does she have the option to resume ger current posistion if things don't work out? Either way, I'd tell her to go for it. It sounds like an adventure and there are plenty of tractorin' oppurtunities in "Wild,Wonderful West Virginia". If you pass something like this up you might be kicking yourself later.

John

Bob_Skurka · Aug 20, 2005

Andy you and MrsAndyM have been somewhat dissatisfied with your jobs for quite a while. If God can create the world and all its creatures in 6 days, I suspect you can figure out how to move MrsAndyM in the same time span . . . and then rest on the 7th day. It just depends on what you want to do.

Sigarms · Aug 20, 2005

Hey, those them thar fighting wards!

Seriously, everyone who lives in West By God Virginia knows that the eastern panhandle should be annexed by D.C/ and that "state" of Md ! (just kidding! /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif), and that from Cumberland on West should be annexed by West By God Virginia!

Honestly, although I don't know your whole "situation", if you have been unhappy for a while and nothing has changed, you will continue to be unhappy if nothing changes.

AndyM · Aug 20, 2005

Well, as some of you know, MrsAndyM is a school teacher, and there are no teaching jobs in Ohio... For example, Cleveland schools laid off 500 teachers this year and over 700 last year. If a position opens in a school district, there is often over 3000 applicants for the job.

She had been applying in PA and WV all summer, has been on several interviews, and finally got offered a job last night. After much discussion, we've decided it's too late to move and get a classroom and lesson plans established by Friday. If they had called a couple of weeks ago, things would be different.

She'll try again next summer, for the seventh summer in a row. There's just nothing in this area, so we'll keep on working towards the out of state stuff... it would be fun to go some place new, but we also don't want to get too far from family... PA, WV, MD.

By the way Bob, that's a great analogy, but I don't think 6 days will work. We'll try again next summer.

Anyone else think it would be fun to move and get jobs some pleace where you've never lived before?

Junkman · Aug 21, 2005

I moved to MA from NJ to make a job change and I did it with 2 days notice. Lived in a motel for a month till I found a place to stay. Went back to NJ to pick up things every weekend in between. Dog stayed with friends till I got settled in and then rode in the front seat of the moving van when the rest of the stuff came North. Six days is enough time if you are motivated enough to make the trek. Opportunity usually knocks but once, and I hope for your sake, you get another chance, but this last one took a while didn't it???????

PineRidge · Aug 21, 2005

Andy it's unfortunate that one has to go where the money is but that is the way it has been for some time. Two of our four grown children reside outside of Ohio for just this very reason and a third is talking now about heading to another state for employment as well.

Whatever you and the wife do decide to do, we wish you both all the luck and happiness in the world, you both deserve it.

Sigarms · Aug 21, 2005

If your wife is a school teacher, she should look south to North Carolina.

When I first moved here (N.C) for work, I lived with two school teachers, and I was amazed about the shortage they talked about in teachers in this state. Both girls went to college "for somthing" else, but after they couldn't find work in thier particular fields, they "crossed over" into teaching. They, on numerous occasions even tried to talk me into going into that profession.

Apparently N.C has programs for people who want to get into the teaching field. If they have these types of programs to "recruit" people, they must have a need.

In central N.C, I'm about 7 hours from Pittsburgh.

Four hour drive from you current location can really limit your "potential".

dmccarty · Aug 22, 2005

Dang it Sigarms!

Don't tell them to move down here. Already too many people. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Seriously, there is a shortage of teachers in NC. There was an article in one of the papers this weekend about most NC teachers moving in from other states. I just looked for it but could not find it online.

Just found it on another site. Teacher Article

NC Government Website should have info on teachers jobs down here.

On the other hand the short notice in West VA is not that short. I had some family move from one state to another. The husband stayed behind to sell the house and find a new job in the new state. It took them awhile but they are glad they made the move.

Send the wife to a good hotel or see if she can rent with another teacher for awhile. She may have to work hard for a couple of weeks but you won't be there to get in her way. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Good Luck,
Dan

rox · Aug 22, 2005

I found my daughter a teaching job over the internet. She graduated in December and I had written her resume. She did not want to live in Wisconsin because she grew up there and went to school there. She gave me a list of states she thought she might like to lvie in and asked me to research these states and find the highest paying school districts in each state. She figured as long as she was going to be applying, might as well apply in the higher paying districts.

While doing this research I came across a website which was I think called www.WantToTeach.com It really worked! Heck I ahd her resume so I jsut filled out the on line form using her information and then sent her an e-mail with her log in and password. I'll be gall darned if she didn't get her first teaching job off of that very website. A school in Hampton Virginia had a teacher needing to take maternity leave in February and they needed a French teacher for the rest of the year. They iterviewed her by phone and offered her the job over the phone. They only offered her substitute teachers pay and she turned them down. They cam back and offered her full teachers salary.

So really I do know that that one website works good. And once you get in a school and they like you it is no problem to get a position for the next year. I hope your wife continues to look throughout the year not not jsut stop becasue school has started. My daughter at that time was qualified in art and French and now just got her Masters Degree in Special Education and will be teaching autistic children.

Good luck to both of you, I hope there is something in my post that will help you.