The Next Step of My Future: MIT Program

Good news everyone, I’ve begun something that will occupy much of time. It’s an MIT program. At this point you must be thinking, “Wow, Kate, how impressive that you got into the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. I didn’t know you were such a tech-savvy genius!”…but that’s not quite the same program. Rather I’ve begun what I like to call the Mother In Training program. Ok, ok, enough joking around the bush. Moral of the story, I got a job! I’m now employed as an assistant teacher at an in-home daycare in Corvallis, or more like a training course of how to mother seven children at once.

Here’s how the obtaining of the job went down:

Last Sunday I was teaching preschoolers in DoxKids (like Sunday School at my church), and one of my fellow teachers informed me that she runs a daycare out of her home. I asked her plenty of questions about it simply out of curiosity and without any alternative motives. She asked me what I do in life and the conversation went something like this…

Me: “Well I just graduated from Western Oregon University back in June and I’ve been searching for a job ever since to no avail…blah, blah, blah, useless English/writing degree, blah, blah, standard post grad sad life spiel…”

My now current employer: “You want a job? I’ll GIVE you a job!”

She offered the position to me in that kind of you-don’t-know-what-you’re-asking-for voice, but she was nice and I was desperate so the rest is history!

Except it’s not really history because now I’m living it. Plus I’m going to keep telling you about it. I started the job on Monday and then continued to work the rest of the week. It’s only a part-time position (my official hours are 9am to naptime) and I really only have work when there are a lot of kids, so it’s a need-basis kind of a deal. But basically I chase around 1-3 year olds and hold babies for half the day. It’s great and pretty much exactly what I’m looking for right now in life.

While I was sitting in all those literature and creative writing classes just a few short months ago, I never thought to myself man it’d be great if I could use this knowledge to eventually go into a job of diaper-changing. But it’s a job, it occupies my time, and the kids are really stinking cute. So I may not have earned my MRS in college, but I’ve moved on to the higher education of a Mother In Training program.