moving on up & out

I believe I am leaving my job soon. I am going to graduate school. It’s time for some big changes in my life.
I am going back to my original plan…when I was three years old I decided teaching was my future. I left that plan my senior year of college. I was angry, I was upset, I was tired of living in at a college in a town with nothing to offer me. I left with a B.S degree in English. That’s like saying, “I wasted 4yrs in college for a piece of paper that doesn’t even earn me a dollar more an hour.” I have spent years in paralyzing debt because of my decisions. It’s time to move on. I applied and was rejected from 5 graduate programs in 2007 (?) and 4 more in 2010. I have been accepted to one. Not speech-language pathology, but elementary/special education. It makes me less money but I can begin my life sooner. I think I’ll be happier in education…I see how miserable my boss is with her job. I hear her co-workers complain about the declining number of available cases and the declining pay due to the high number of new graduates. I know education is not perfect, it’s not high-paying, it’s not easy…but I really enjoyed being in a classroom and teaching.
Right now I enjoy my job. We are family. It’s tough but I love them. They offered me an agreement but I’m not so sure I can handle it. Classes are most likely at night. They offered for me to watch the children about 2hrs per morning (from when their mom leaves till they go to school) five days per week and to work all day Sunday. I would be responsible for laundry (washing/drying) and dishes. They would allow me to live here rent free and pay my train pass for the commute to the college. This is a nice offer and they said I’d be free after about 9am to work someplace else. I am not sure this would happen. I feel like they would end up asking for more and more over time. I feel like I’d be expected to work if I had a day free or to clean if I was home a bit later. I don’t think it would be as easy as they think.
My plan right now is to go to evening classes and work during the day. I’m hoping to go to school only 2-3 evenings per week and work those same days. I would live with my parents (and stay with James as often as possible). I need to stop here to shower and call James (who has turned into the best boyfriend by the way).