When worlds collide.

As many of our readers know, I’ve been trying to get a teaching job for a million years a few months. Because I am a person of little patience who wants everything to be perfect at all times, I have let this stress me out too much. I am not too much of a planner, but I do like to be able to plan and dream in my head for the future and it’s much nicer when these dreams consist of spending my days in bright happy schools, cute teacher-y outfits, a reason to get up early and do something (I’ll be kicking myself for this wish though), money to save for our own house, for my new camera, and for the guitar of his dreams for Kent, and to get through this year of weddings (six close friends and family) without going broke.

And you might just think this is another complainy blog, maybe you are three sentences away from clicking “mark as read,” but it’s not. Promise. I had a big big big interview on Friday for the exact teaching job that I want and spent last week as a nervous wreck preparing for it. My lovely in laws (recently retired teachers) picked me up and brought me there like I was a child on her first day of kindergarten and made sure not to say anything to make me even more nervous (not possible.) For various reasons I have a lot of hope about it and while positive is a strong word… well the more I think about it the more nervous about it I get, so I’ll stop there. Anyways. Let’s just pretend I do get the job.

Now my question – do blogging and teaching mix? I know a few bloggers who are teachers, some post pictures, and most use their real names. Some share stories about their students, many write things I doubt they would want their students reading. I don’t know if they take any precautions; make sure co-workers don’t know about their blogs, keep their blog secret from anyone they know in real life, but I know I couldn’t do any of that at this point. So many of our readers are real life friends and family, and when I worked at a bank my co-workers would make sure to inform me during the day if someone had updated our blog. I really like it being part of my real life, not a secret thing that I have to be careful about.

Also, even if I decided to keep my posts student-friendly, this is a shared blog and my sisters are of course free to write about whatever they want. Not that my sisters are writing about anything too out there, but do I want my students reading about my sisters’ roommate problems or work problems, for example? Not really. And I don’t think the school would appreciate it either. It’s a big school board, not just a small private school so getting fired would really not be preferable. Not that it ever would be.

So where does that bring me? I guess I have three options – keep blogging here and hope for the best, stop blogging, or start my own blog. I would be interested in starting something like Young House Love or Cupcakes and Cashmere, something that can feed my creativity and talk about my life without going into anything personal. If I do have my own blog I want it to be something I feel comfortable telling my students about. We don’t have an old house that we’ve fixed up into a masterpiece and I don’t have a wardrobe or fashion sense to die for, but we have our cute little apartment and will hopefully buy a house sometime this year. I could work on the wardrobe thing, especially if I did have a teaching job.

So tell me what you think – what would you do in my position, knowing me well or not knowing me at all? Or what would you do if you were in this position?