Amy&Dan
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Feb 19, 2004
Ok,I need to vent a bit! I just checked my email and have one from my sister. I may have mentioned she got laid off recently and now she's all hot to get recertified to teach. She hasn't taught in over 28 years and in fact she never did teach but rather was a sub. It is all I hear about. What she has to do, how hard it is blah, blah, blah. She wants to move back to Denver and teach down here. Fine. She hasn't liven in Denver for 15 years but she's convinced life will be pefect when she comes back. I will add Denver is way more expensive than where she currenly lives. She is actually surviving fine on unemployment since her rent is so dirt cheap.
Anyway, today she writes she is on her way down to Denver to go to the public school hiring office to see what they have going on and at the end of her email she writes: "I'll let you know if I get hired so you and your family can put your lives on hold and move me back to Denver".
So typical. She's not kidding either by the way. Yeah, I put my life on hold for six weeks last summer. I cleaned out a house that was like something on a reality show, spent hundreds upon hundreds of dollars on hotels, packing and cleaning supplies and food to feed us all while we got her out of there. I helped her find a place to live that is beautiful and perfect for her needs and budget but for some reason she is now obsessed "with getting out of there". She amazes me. She finally gets some security and she's ready to throw it all away, up and move 75 miles and just assumes I'll be happy to help her with Fresh Start Number 20. She claims the district in her area isn't hiring but she does say there are others nearby that are, that she could easily commute to from where she lives now, and not up and move and lose what little security she has. But common sense seldom enters her universe.
I assume she won't try this until September when her current lease is up but who knows. Its seeminly impossible for her to do this given she's unemployed, has no savings and for once I won't be offering financial assistance but she has a way of throwing all caution to the winds and just going for broke. Literally.
Don't get me wrong, I am thrilled she's going to teach. I have mentioned to her for years she should go back and get recertified (which she never wanted to do until now) but like alll things she does, its all or nothing. I mean teach for sure, but start out in a district that is not too far away to commute to from where you now live. This is the kind of thing that made my mother not sleep a decent night's sleep for over 25 years.
Its just sad for me that so soon after getting on her feet, she's willing to risking falling back off the cliff. I guess in the end, she and I are both putting the horse before the cart. She has no idea what the requirements are, how long it will take and if she can even get a job. So I therefore don't know either. But what I do know is that she gets a bug up her butt and won't let it drop. She was so happy when we found this condo she rents, to me it was a God thing we even found it and now six months later its "done, time to move on". Why will the next fresh start be different? Oh well, its her life. This time I am not in a position to help her out so she'll have to do this one on her own. I just need to make sure she understands that.
Anyway, today she writes she is on her way down to Denver to go to the public school hiring office to see what they have going on and at the end of her email she writes: "I'll let you know if I get hired so you and your family can put your lives on hold and move me back to Denver".
So typical. She's not kidding either by the way. Yeah, I put my life on hold for six weeks last summer. I cleaned out a house that was like something on a reality show, spent hundreds upon hundreds of dollars on hotels, packing and cleaning supplies and food to feed us all while we got her out of there. I helped her find a place to live that is beautiful and perfect for her needs and budget but for some reason she is now obsessed "with getting out of there". She amazes me. She finally gets some security and she's ready to throw it all away, up and move 75 miles and just assumes I'll be happy to help her with Fresh Start Number 20. She claims the district in her area isn't hiring but she does say there are others nearby that are, that she could easily commute to from where she lives now, and not up and move and lose what little security she has. But common sense seldom enters her universe.
I assume she won't try this until September when her current lease is up but who knows. Its seeminly impossible for her to do this given she's unemployed, has no savings and for once I won't be offering financial assistance but she has a way of throwing all caution to the winds and just going for broke. Literally.
Don't get me wrong, I am thrilled she's going to teach. I have mentioned to her for years she should go back and get recertified (which she never wanted to do until now) but like alll things she does, its all or nothing. I mean teach for sure, but start out in a district that is not too far away to commute to from where you now live. This is the kind of thing that made my mother not sleep a decent night's sleep for over 25 years.
Its just sad for me that so soon after getting on her feet, she's willing to risking falling back off the cliff. I guess in the end, she and I are both putting the horse before the cart. She has no idea what the requirements are, how long it will take and if she can even get a job. So I therefore don't know either. But what I do know is that she gets a bug up her butt and won't let it drop. She was so happy when we found this condo she rents, to me it was a God thing we even found it and now six months later its "done, time to move on". Why will the next fresh start be different? Oh well, its her life. This time I am not in a position to help her out so she'll have to do this one on her own. I just need to make sure she understands that.