nanienamou
05-08-2012, 08:55 AM
As you might know, I returned to work after a 8-year hiatus (SAHM/WAHM) last January. I absolutely adore my job: I teach French to public servants, mostly one-on-one, but I also have a group of beginners, so that they can pass their French proficiency test required for certain jobs. Anyway, this has been so beneficial for my mind and my life.
The thing is that the Canadian government announced at the end of May substantial job cuts for the public servants all across Canada, but of course, the Capital region - the Ottawa region, where I live and work - is the most affected and people are scared of requesting French training in these uncertain times. The cuts are going to continue through the summer in different departments but in the meantime, the school where I teach is struggling to get new contracts and our hours were cut significantly. Already 40 teachers were laid off, but the kept me, even though I started in January, so I guess this is positive for me.
Tomorrow, we have a meeting to see what coming up in the next couple of months contract and job-wise and I'll have to decide what I'm going to do. If I let this job go, we need to stop the moving process (our house is for sale and we had the project to buy a house with a mother-in-law suite, but it's not going to be possible if I don't work - the offer expires at the end of may) until I find another job, which I can say won't be easy in the current state of things around here. Or, I could maybe keep my job and work very part-time hours (like 10-15 a week) all this summer and hope that things will pick up in september (which is always the busiest time of the year for French training. Again, this puts our new house project on hold.
The chances of having a full time schedule are kinda slim, but I'm still keeping my fingers crossed. Of course, the whole situation is not catastrophic, but the uncertainty is killing me. I just want some clear answers so that we can make some concrete decisions. I'm just hoping we'll get these answers tomorrow. :(
Thank you for reading my ramblings. :unsure:
The thing is that the Canadian government announced at the end of May substantial job cuts for the public servants all across Canada, but of course, the Capital region - the Ottawa region, where I live and work - is the most affected and people are scared of requesting French training in these uncertain times. The cuts are going to continue through the summer in different departments but in the meantime, the school where I teach is struggling to get new contracts and our hours were cut significantly. Already 40 teachers were laid off, but the kept me, even though I started in January, so I guess this is positive for me.
Tomorrow, we have a meeting to see what coming up in the next couple of months contract and job-wise and I'll have to decide what I'm going to do. If I let this job go, we need to stop the moving process (our house is for sale and we had the project to buy a house with a mother-in-law suite, but it's not going to be possible if I don't work - the offer expires at the end of may) until I find another job, which I can say won't be easy in the current state of things around here. Or, I could maybe keep my job and work very part-time hours (like 10-15 a week) all this summer and hope that things will pick up in september (which is always the busiest time of the year for French training. Again, this puts our new house project on hold.
The chances of having a full time schedule are kinda slim, but I'm still keeping my fingers crossed. Of course, the whole situation is not catastrophic, but the uncertainty is killing me. I just want some clear answers so that we can make some concrete decisions. I'm just hoping we'll get these answers tomorrow. :(
Thank you for reading my ramblings. :unsure: