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there have been some significant changes in my life, and now i want to push them further.
i am about to give up my master of laws research. i have applied to enter a teaching diploma. despite completing a law degree with an excellent grade point average, and prior education and experience in biotechnology and information technology, not a single law firm has showed any interest in employing me since i was admitted as a barrister and solicitor. i'm an unemployed lawyer. fuck that.
i can teach with my eyes shut. with degrees in science and law, plus postgraduate computer science and law, and fifteen years of tutoring science, law, and computing, i ought to be able to find a job in a school somewhere. and having grown up in the country, i can survive working away from the bright lights of the big city ...
i'm planning to follow up basic teacher training with specialisation in gifted education. several reasons. as an asperger syndrome adult, i can relate to many of the issues and concerns of gifted students - social isolation, 'unusual' interests, extraordinary knowledge, boredom with standard curriculum, and so on. my son is gifted. and finally, when i'm tutoring, i give my students how to learn, or how to pull problems apart and piece together solutions - i try to make them independant learners. after all, they get no lasting benefit if they can't do things for themselves, and i'm not a textbook.
i am also looking for somewhere to live. enough of living in my parents house. particularly when they get back from europe next month. somewhere closer to the city, not in a limboland suburb out of the transport loop. a manageable place near the city, for access to the teaching course, and to the life of the city. the suburbs are shite.
some bigger questions loom in the near distance, they will be addressed in good time. i've put a few things in motion, and should have a few more pieces of the puzzle coming into place over the coming weeks.
i am about to give up my master of laws research. i have applied to enter a teaching diploma. despite completing a law degree with an excellent grade point average, and prior education and experience in biotechnology and information technology, not a single law firm has showed any interest in employing me since i was admitted as a barrister and solicitor. i'm an unemployed lawyer. fuck that.
i can teach with my eyes shut. with degrees in science and law, plus postgraduate computer science and law, and fifteen years of tutoring science, law, and computing, i ought to be able to find a job in a school somewhere. and having grown up in the country, i can survive working away from the bright lights of the big city ...
i'm planning to follow up basic teacher training with specialisation in gifted education. several reasons. as an asperger syndrome adult, i can relate to many of the issues and concerns of gifted students - social isolation, 'unusual' interests, extraordinary knowledge, boredom with standard curriculum, and so on. my son is gifted. and finally, when i'm tutoring, i give my students how to learn, or how to pull problems apart and piece together solutions - i try to make them independant learners. after all, they get no lasting benefit if they can't do things for themselves, and i'm not a textbook.
i am also looking for somewhere to live. enough of living in my parents house. particularly when they get back from europe next month. somewhere closer to the city, not in a limboland suburb out of the transport loop. a manageable place near the city, for access to the teaching course, and to the life of the city. the suburbs are shite.
some bigger questions loom in the near distance, they will be addressed in good time. i've put a few things in motion, and should have a few more pieces of the puzzle coming into place over the coming weeks.
rejuvenated