I love the smell of irony in the morning

So in the span of one week I experienced that exquisite feeling of going from the sublime to the ridiculous. I got a job offer (very very short term-- a 2 week contract) it was offered to me sight unseen, purely on the merit of a recommendation and my CV on file. It's fairly lucrative-- about $250 a day--depending on how fast I work, I guess, but with the potential to be that start of Big Things. The contract is with a Government Agency that oversees converting classroom content to packaged courses -- both print and online.

So...I happily accept the job which happens to be doing the Instructional Design on a grade 12 course. Brilliant-- I'm all excited. That's the sublime moment, followed days later by another conversation with the HRH who (just to cut to the chase) is still insisting that I cannot be considered for teaching positions at the Secondary Level. They HAVE to have experienced teachers in those halls.....


After I complete the Gov't Contract, I will know more about that course than any teacher in the province. And yet. HRH would STILL not deem me suitable to teach it....It would be laughable were it not so pathetic....