Torn between two jobs, feeling like a fool.....

yeppers - new job = only littlies - 12 and under - vs 0 to 18 where I am now - and new job is a specialized sub-sample of kids re problem, too - but the underlying stuff will be very similar.

So at what stage is your application at now?

Yep, I can attest to that. Useta teach pre-school (1-1/2 to 6 years) then taught high school. High schoolers are taller, that's all.

In my (limited) experience, when it's a matter of helping troubled kids, the younger the better -- the younger they are when you get to them, the more hope there is.

Not sure if there is scads of difference between 0-12 and 0-18, though.

Most--not all, but most--Under-12's believe that adults know more than they do.

Many--not all, but many--12-to-18 year old kids think they know as much as any adult--and perhaps more.

Actually, there IS a difference - and I am a bit burned out by it.

Adolescents, bless 'em, who have been traumatised, tend to slash and mutilate and make frequent suicide attempts, or be suicidal for long periods, and generally have you on the edge of your seat, biting your nails, sweating and sending your hair gray - because, as well as caring like hell about the little blighters, you know who will get the blame if one of them actually does it. Mostly, they don't want to - but they are always likely to kill themselves by accident, poor little things.

16 years of it (despite its rewards) has left me a husk of my former self!




And I'm only 35!

Well, Farmerman, bring out your prediction - I just took the new job.

Hooray & congratulations, Deb!

I can hear your immune system cheering from the other side of the world.

Hold your dominion.

Lol - thankee.Actually, I can feel the poor thing crumbling entirely from the strain!

(note to self - take Berocca)

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Better sure than sorry, Deb ... take two!

Hey, congrats!!!!

When do you start?

Well, I need 4 weeks to finish up - and I asked for two weeks holiday - which their person said meant 8th August - but my arithmetic makes that 22nd August - finishing up old job on the 5th August.

They are giving me a half day a week to continue with the therapy training we are doing at the old job!!!

Sounds great! And like they really wanted you.

Happy commuting!

Congrats on your decision, Deb. I'm sure the younguns will be getting a great new advocate.

maybe a nice gin and grapefruit juice instead?

Congratulations - sounds like they know they're getting the person they really need.

It's a good decision, deb. <nodding>

Good for you!

Good going, bunny. I hope it all works out well.

Great!