Still waiting for a classroom [IrishTimes]
- Published: 20 September 2011
MY EDUCATION WEEK: Maria Brett, Fourth-year student, Coláiste Mhuire Marino
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10TH
Last weekend in Kilkenny before I make the big move to Dublin and start knocking on school doors. I’ve been training at Coláiste Mhuire in Marino for the past three years, so it’s not exactly a new frontier, but I was a student then. I’m a jobseeker now.
Yes, I am aware that teaching jobs are not that easy to come by any more, but I’m from the Kelly Rowland school of career guidance. “Don’t let anybody stand in your way, girl!” If I could just get those sculpted arms and that high-gloss hair, what school wouldn’t want me?
I shouldn’t be watching The X Factor : I should be shining my shoes and ironing my CV.
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