Back in High School…
So, I accepted a job at a high school. I actually got two calls from the county today about job offers, but I passed on the one at the middle school simply because I think the early hours at the high school will benefit me and my daughter in the long run – ample time for afternoon appointments, lots of time for homework, and no rushing home to cook dinner right away.
I started thinking a little more about how I have not really been in a high school setting, aside from some time tutoring about a year and a half ago, since I graduated high school over 20 years ago. 20 years. *gulp*
The posturing, the acne treatments, the need to have just the right shoes and go to all the right parties – those things are so far removed from my life right now that I am sure it will take me some time to get back to where I can see things from a high school kid’s position. Of course, on the other hand I have often admitted that somewhere inside my little head I still feel like I am 18, so getting used to the grind should be pretty easy in the end. One thing that has changed, though, is that I definitely like older guys now,…as in men nearing 40. 
That’s sure not something that would have struck my fancy back in high school.
I wonder if this new job is going to make me even more sad to miss my reunion this month.
Congrats on the job! I’m sure you must have some jitters in starting a new job, new career, but you sound remarkably calm! I hope it is a really terrific environment and perhaps you’ll even meet a cute 40ish guy there, although I don’t recall them at the high school. (But like you say, when you’re in high school, you’re watching the high school guys, maybe the early college guys, but not the forty-something guys, ewww!)