i got a job!

so i was pretty excited yesterday because i finally found a job. well, the paperwork still has to go through so maybe i shouldn't count the chickens before they're hatched, but i'm not anticipating any problems. originally i had resigned myself to working lots of evenings and weekends at a tutoring center, but i was able to find a job through this place called total education solutions.

They basically place me as an aide to a special ed student who needs someone to help him/her with communication skills and behavior modification, and i am like their "shadow" throughout the school day, helping them in either special ed or mainstream classrooms. I guess a lot of their clients are autistic or developmentally delayed and need a certain number of hours of one-one one attention according to their individualized education plan. It's probably going to be pretty challenging since I don't have much experience in this area, but they provide me with training and initial supervision. The cool part is they work around my school schedule and and it pays pretty good, and they reimburse me for mileage, and since it's schools it means no evenings or weekends. The other cool part is that they also have a separate speech and language program that they said they could transition me into once I have more speech pathology units under my belt, where I would get to work with other speech language pathologists and work with kids on speech and language development. It almost sounds too good to be true, and I'm starting to get nervous. But I'm mostly excited.

I had celebratory fish and chips with beer last night, and a disgusting drink at starbucks called the pumpkin spice latte. avoid it like the plague. hmmm, what else. nothin. hang tough....