The first thing that struck me about the XD38 description was the career stuff. I'm teaching public high school in a challenging new school now and finding that it's not for me. The conflict with my boss is hard, but the non-teaching stuff is the worst for me. Assessment, staff dev. etc. is painful, and the satisfaction is not as much as I thought.

The technical writing and journalism hit home with me because those were more or less my two majors in college, journalism and broadcasting BA and Ed. Tech. MA, which is instructional design of which technical writing is part.

Now I'm faced with several offers in the summer on other people's projects, an academic online community ed. tech slot and a possible long shot start-up online community job.

But I wonder. As a mostly Nexus type, do I take these things that present themselves? Or do I go for a journalism/media/PhD type thing because it is my very nature to work on my own projects?

Thinking out loud again...besides stress from work, my new perch in Keene NH is pretty good. 5 minutes to work, making sure to visit my anti-depressants (They YMCA) cool folks, good pool bars, all right around the corner.