I went for an interview last Thursday at the Cental Office for the Shippenburg Area School District. It was interesting to find, since coming from NC, that they do not have county schools around here. Everything is by area and there are 508 area school districts in PA. The job that I am accepting is Secretary to the Assistant Superintendent. Basically I will be her personal assistant.
After talking with her on the phone last Monday, she offered me the job and asked if we could meet yesterday so that we could go over my contract and details. It was a very pleasant meeting, I got to see my new desk and meet some of the people that we will be working with. They all seem very nice and can't wait for the everyday adult enteraction. Being a social person that has been the hardest part about my sabbatical, not talking to people all day long. I am excited that the girl who's desk is in the same room as me is around my age and seemed pretty cool. It's hard not having any of your friends around, like when I needed to go shopping for work clothes yesterday, and there was no one to call. Hopefully this will be a good oppritunity to make new friends.
Funny story about the Superintendent's secretary: she took her daughters dog to the vet last Friday. She knew that Doug was a vet so she asked where and then what he looked like. When she realized that's who treated her daughters dog, she started telling my how attractive my husband was. The funniest part was when she realized that she had only met me 5 minutes ago and she was talking about him. She immediately started apologizing and telling me that she didn't hit on him, just that he was really nice. It made me laugh, even though she had no idea that I wasn't worried about her hitting on my husband. I tried to make her feel better by saying it wasn't the first time and at least she was paying money.
So I am excited to start my new job, ready to get my feet wet. Although there is no training for the job, I think I can handle it. I know one of my first task will be making a master calendar of all the schools facuilty meetings so that I can schedule Beth's meetings with department heads, ect. Beth is my new boss, the new Asst. Super. She has only been there a couple of weeks, which makes me feel a little better, because she has no expectations of what's supposed to happen, anymore than I do, so we will be learning together. The down fall is that I have to be there at 7 am on Tuesday. Durning the summer they work "summer" hours which is 7 to 4:15 with Fridays off and then during the school year it is 8 to 3:30. Not bad, it's full time and I only have to work a 7 hour work day. I am telling you it is the job for me, Monday thru Friday and only 7 hours a day! I am such a slacker.
So that's the jist, the pay is not six figures, but hey we can't all be millionaires! Right?
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