During that unexpected phone conversation, which couldn’t have lasted over one minute, he asked me one question. “Have you applied for the science job at Ellis Tech? It’s still open” Although I was still sending out an occasional application to area schools, somehow, I had completely missed that particular science opening. While his question took me by surprise, I asked him when the closing date was and when he told me it was the very next day, I knew I had to act fast. He then gave me the name and number of the secretary in charge of organizing the interviews and told me to call her immediately to let them know that my completed application was on its way.
After I made the call and was assured that they would accept my application, even if it was a day late, I wasn’t about…show more content… When I assured them I would and could be there, I thanked them for the opportunity and then asked myself: “Do bears live in the woods?” Of course, I’m going to be there. “
I remember the morning of the interview, as I pulled into the parking lot a few minutes before my scheduled interview, thinking about the differences between this teaching position and the one I had at St. Patrick School. It didn’t take me long to realize that the similarities were almost nonexistent. The two systems were about as unlike as day and night.
My interview, which went very well, was held in a conference room in front of a group of officials associated with the school ranging from the Associate Director to the Department Head to the Science Consultant, whose job each year was to travel to all seventeen Vocational-Technical schools in Connecticut to oversee each school’s science curriculum. While I never saw that man again after that interview, I was told that this particular consultant would always ask the same question which turned out to be: “Can you tell me something about Ohm’s
