don't call us, we'll call you

I can't complain. Since getting into the field of internet in education I haven't (yet) had to seek out work. It's come to me. Somebody knows someone, or someone heard a lecture or read an article, and it turns out that I'm one of the lucky few who really gets interesting offers.

One time, however, I really did send a CV. I found this ad in a Shabbat paper, and said to myself that even if I haven't been a teacher in an American school, being a "curriculum content developer" was definitely the sort of thing I could do. So I sent in a CV ... and never got a response.

A few months later, however, the phone rang. Someone whom I knew from previous work was now working for this company and thought that I was precisely the right person for a project on the agenda - a project which was pretty much precisely what I thought I'd applied for back then. After one meeting I'd signed a contract and for about five months, until the "curriculum content" section of the company was moved to the States (which I admit seemed a logical move) I had yet another side job that kept me awake late into the night.