A New Job Search Daniel Nash attached the envelopes to his owl's leg and sent out his next batch of job applications. He'd had a pretty sweet office job going, right out of college, and he had greatly enjoyed the monotony and security and lack of surprises involved in simple financial transactions . . . for the first two years. Then it became mind-numbingly dull and the office drama started looking interesting instead of irritating until he found himself involved in a romantic triangle that included the vice-president of the company and he realized he really needed a new direction for his life.
He quit, cut ties, and found a new office job while he took evening classes in education. The new job was just as bad as the first job but it was better than not being employed until he had the necessary credentials to change careers. Not because he needed the money - he was a Nash, he had plenty of money, even with the cost of a second series of tuition payments - but because he'd go mad if he didn't have anything to do during the day. The minute he got his teaching certificate, though, he was out of there.
His first teaching job right out of the gate was tutoring his sister's kids, and that was technically where he was still employed, but there was an axiom out there that said something like 'never work for family' and he was quickly coming to understand why it existed. Neither his sister nor her children treated him like a professional, which in turn made it hard for him to act professionally, and he was beginning to fear it might be adversely affecting his nieces' and nephew's education.
So he was trying to find something else, anywhere else. His lack of experience teaching older kids , though, was proving to be a bit of an obstacle. This was a serious problem when what he ultimately wanted to teach was university level coursework so he could actually do some research himself, too, but he was sure he could get there. He just might need a few stepping stones in between now and then.