Friday, October 17, 2008

Job hunting and other fun things

Or really, not fun at all! So this is what is going on in the life of Brooke right now: I am in the process of switching majors, so I am meeting with my advisor monday to talk about my academic contract, but thats just my Uni College advisor not the pre-education advisor so that sucks. Once priority registration is over then I can meet with an advisor in the College of Education to discuss what I need to do and what classes I need to take for pre-education. What I know so far is that I have to take math again (eww), I have to take 4, yes 4, semesters of Spanish (omg please kill me), and I have to have 120 hours working experience with children. This is just some of the basics before I actually apply for the C of E. The thing that sucks though is that I am pretty behind since I am switching majors, and all of the chemistry that I took that caused me immense stress last year is now worth nothing WHAT!? But hopefully with some extra summer classes I will be able to catch up some what. 
As for the job hunting thing, I have been looking all day for jobs in which I would be working with elementary age children, so that I can use it as hours of experience, but I am having some trouble. I have limited time to work because of class and lacrosse so that makes it hard to find job because I can't work all day. There is some volunteer things that I can do like work at the child care center at TMC or volunteer at an elementary school, which are both great, it's just that I could really use the money and I wouldn't be getting paid:( 
If anyone has any advice or ideas for me I would really appreciate your input, so please feel free to let me know. Thanks:) XOXO

1 comment:

Ashley Locke said...

Talk to the YMCA around there about any daycamps or after school camps they have. They are usually held at schools and they are paying positions. It's from after school until like 6 or 7 when parents can come pick up their kids. I did that for awhile in high school, it was pretty fun.