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[Pembo]

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[Lisa loves Pooh]

Did you do any volunteer work?

Any fundraising activities?

Hold any positions of any club or group?

Are you active in your church?

Though I am self-employed right now and can fill my resume with some work experience, all of the above I have done to some extent and can utilize people from those areas for references. May not be exactly tied to what I am pursuing--but better than nothing.

I would look in those areas.

 

[daisyduck123]

Have you done any subbing at all? If that was one of your little "odd" jobs, I'd list that first.

Good luck!! (From one teacher to another )

 

[The Mystery Machine]

Just wanted to say HI and good luck! I got a job in the school cafeteria last week, only part time, after being home 10yrs.
It is a start.

As far as references, I had to get current ones. ALL of my past ones are GONE...companies have changed names, owners, etc...

My dd is in Girl Scouts and I help out, so a couple of parents & the leader said they would vouch for me if they called them.

Heck...if I can dig up my stuff you can! It is frustrating at first but it gets better.

 

[disykat]

I just went through this. For my references I used the principal at my kid's school - she knew me well from my volunteer work and I also subbed there. I also used a principal who attends our church. I had taught his kids at VBS and he'd seen numerous Christmas programs, etc. over the course of a decade that I ran because his kids were the same ages as my own. My third reference was the preschool director at our church. I had subbed for the preschool occasionally and am also chairman of the preschool advisory board. Prior to subbing, instead of my kid's principal I used the Pastor at my church - I guess that won't work for you!

If you think about it, you've probably got many of the same kinds of people you can use. It is tough - my college didn't want to send my "Outdated" placement file. Even though I'd kept it reasonably updated they said they wouldn't send anything over 10 years old. Since I hadn't officially taught in 10 years, that would have x'd everything except subbing out of my file! I stayed on their case until they sent my past references.

I only listed my teaching experience on the application. I left "odd-jobs" off of my resume also, but did put in volunteer work that was applicable.

Good luck! I know how frustrating it can be!