A very slow escape

So I interviewed with School Professionals on Monday, and I am now one of their (many? hopefully not too many!) substitute teachers being shopped out to NYC's charter and private schools. The pay is lower than the DOE, but not by much, actually. It wasn't the full-time insurance-providing job in education I was hoping for, but I think I might really like it. And apparently, subbing leads to full-time jobs pretty frequently, actually.

And I put in notice with my current job that October 2nd will be my last day. Why such a long notice, you ask?

Because A: our profit-sharing plan turns over quarterly, and it would be folly not to finish out a quarter if I have the opportunity. And B: it gets me closer to flu season, when I imagine subbing will begin to be 'lucrative' (e.g. we might be able to pay our electric bill with it).

And C: in spite of all the grumbling and griping I've done and in spite of the fact that I have no interest in this industry and I can barely stand the world of deskjobbery in any industry, much less finance....they've been really good to me here. They've paid me fairly, given me insurance and lunches, and were absurdly understanding through my whole health crisis last year. So as prison jobs go, this one wasn't so bad, really.

So. It's gonna be a crap shoot. We'll definitely pay through the nose for health insurance this year. And I'll definitely make nearly half what I make now, if not LESS. And Adam will definitely have to bear the brunt of the financial burden, and I will definitely have moments (possibly many of them strung together) when I will wonder if I shouldn't have just stayed at my dungeon desk job.

But I'm ready to take that risk. All for this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHYtYE8_bzU