So, I’ve managed to pull myself out of my pit of despair, reclaimed my will as my own after a brief paralysis, and generally accepted the fact that, should I be unemployed come September of this year, I’m still very employable and joblessness shall be but temporary and is not worthy of listlessness when there’s so much good in life.
Good in life… I’ve spent the past week surrounding myself by the things that make me happiest: fiction, music, sleep, and Amy.
I wanted so badly to come on here tonight and talk about this masters program at the university that I’m angling at, thinking to myself that hey, I can do this, I can hold down my career, nail this degree…
And then reality came crashing in on my little world. Now it looks like I might not able to do either. A lot of who I am is tied up in what I do, and to lose that?
There are no words.
XXXXXXXXXX PUBLIC SCHOOLS SUMMARY OF BUDGET ISSUES
Key Background Issues
1. As a district, we have been living beyond our means. In 2004-2005 we are projecting $1,690,000 worth of reserve spending.
2. As a result of budget decisions for 2004-2005 and the use of class size funding in the summer of 2004, based upon current funding levels, we cannot sustain our current level of staffing.
3. Average province wide salary increases are outstripping increases in provincial grants (2004-05: 2.8% vs 2%; 2005-06: 2.5% vs 2%).
Translation? I’m screwed. And if not me, than someone very much like me, and no matter how badly I may want to, I can’t — I won’t — wish this on anyone.