{"id":32,"date":"2006-05-10T10:05:35","date_gmt":"2006-05-10T14:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teachteach.com\/blog\/?p=32"},"modified":"2006-08-02T10:05:55","modified_gmt":"2006-08-02T14:05:55","slug":"treading-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teachteach.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/10\/treading-water\/","title":{"rendered":"treading water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I seem to be treading water, still not swimming but at least I&#8217;m holding my own in the pool for now. It&#8217;s tough. I&#8217;ve pretty much decided to take the Graduation Specialist position, but I&#8217;m not going to feel good about it until a) they post the position, b) I see my name next to it in writing. Until then, I feel insecure and scared as hell.<\/p>\n<p>Today was my first full day back at work since I heard that my job was being eliminated. It was gratifying to feel valued by so many of the teachers. They were supportive and outraged&#8211;a lovely combination right now. One of those teachers really helped me to feel better about the new position I might be assuming&#8211;she pointed out several obvious things about how I could do the job, some of which were specific to me and my skills, and it made me feel a lot better. It also made the job seem possible, like something I could actually do.<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m just mentally and physically exhausted. How do people do this, I wonder? How do people look for jobs, choose to quit without a job lined up, on a regular basis? Because I know some people do&#8211;they&#8217;re fearless and self-assured. Or maybe they just like change. Oh, if only that could be me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I seem to be treading water, still not swimming but at least I&#8217;m holding my own in the pool for now. It&#8217;s tough. I&#8217;ve pretty much decided to take the Graduation Specialist position, but I&#8217;m not going to feel good about it until a) they post the position, b) I see my name next to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-ilt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachteach.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachteach.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachteach.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachteach.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachteach.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/teachteach.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachteach.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachteach.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachteach.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}