Dream Big, right?

[geminigirl]

So, I apparently can't apply for New Jersey state jobs until I know where I'm living-many of the onees that I'd consider are restricted to people who live in particular places.

I checked out a bunch of positions at the various colleges and universities in NYC...namely Manattan; I'm not sure anything else would be a reasonable commute. I'll apply for a couple of jobs...including an instructor position at BMCC. Why not, right? It's a teaching job...teaching is what I want to do. It's what I ache to do. It's half the reason I want to get my PhD. (The other half is to have access and support for research.)

Dream big, wish hard, and hope it works, right?

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[messyjessy.livejournal.com]

What would you be teaching?

[geminigirl]

Health Education....stress management, nutrition, human sexuality...stuff like that.

[wait.livejournal.com]

I need all of those....

[geminigirl]

Human sexuality?

[fortryll.livejournal.com]

If you don't aim big, you will never know :)

[geminigirl]

Yeah. I saw this job advertised a while back, and didn't apply cause I thought there was no way I'd even be considered as a candidate.

But it's still there, so why not?

And aren't you supposed to be sleeping?

[fortryll.livejournal.com]

Should be sleeping, perhaps. But I've been running errands & working today. Will work on the sleeping thing in about...(checking clock)...ten minutes.

[entirelysonja.livejournal.com]

Couldn't you apply for state jobs in places where it would be reasonable for you to live, and then get housing after you got a job? Or does it just not work that way?

[geminigirl]

Generally if civil service jobs are location restricted, they won't consider you if you're outside that location. Or if you're as far outside the location as I am, anyway. If I lived in New Jersey already, I might be able to do that, but I don't.