Let’s count some chickens before they’re hatched!
Today I’m going to interview for a full-time teaching job at a nearby community college. The likelihood that they’ll hire me is about zero, but miracles happen. So I dare to daydream…
♣ If I get this job, the first thing I’m gunna do is buy some decent clothes. Years of living in Costco jeans have left me without any real clothes. No more than one or two outfits in the closet would do for an interview or for work in an office anywhere other than academia.
♣ The second thing I’m gunna do is hire someone to take care of the pool.
♣ Then I’m going to get a car that doesn’t guzzle $80 or $90 worth of gas every month.
♣ And forthwith, while housing prices are still depressed, I’m going to look for someplace to live that doesn’t have a swimming pool, two unused bedrooms, and a big yard to take care of.
♣ And next summer, I will put my beautiful little dog in the beautiful new sporty car and head for northern New Mexico, where we will see nary a 116-degree day through the entire month of July!
♣ County employees (the community colleges belong to the Maricopa County) share in the Arizona State Retirement System, a defined-benefits pension plan. I wonder if they therefore also get RASL? If that is the case, then instantly I get hired, my RASL would max out.
Yes. If I were paid my present salary on a nine-month basis, my hourly rate would jump from $30 an hour to about $85 an hour. Half of that times all my unused sick leave would come to $51,850. RASL maxes out at $30,000, so I would be well beyond that. I could actually use some of my sick leave without biting into that retirement benefit!
Mwha ha hah!
Above the Clouds. Arun Kulshreshtha.
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Funny,
Good luck on your interview 🙂
Sending you good luck too.
That’s a lovely nest of eggs you’ve got, I really hope that it all hatches out!