Short Lived - Retirement

So most of you know I retired this year as an elementary PE teacher after 9 years at the same school. Schools in Gilbert have been back in for 8 days now and I have enjoyed my 6 days off. Yes only 6 days. A PE teacher from another school had a family emergency so he asked me to sub for him this past Thursday and Friday. It was fun to do, different because I was at another school and I didn't know any of the kids, but it was certainly clear to me that I STILL LOVE TEACHING PE. I am so glad that I quit working because it was time for me to. Not because I didn't love my job. I really do love what I do.

So that being said: I Got a crazy phone call on Wednesday morning on my way to the temple. I am told....There is a school in Gilbert that has 2 PE classes extra and no one to take them. They can't use a normal traveling PE teacher because this school is one of 5 "pilot" schools trying out a new schedule the district is trying to implement for next year. This Principal asked if I would be willing to come back and take two 40 minute classes every Monday morning from 9:05-10:30 at this school. hmmm I asked her if she could contact the district and to email to me what kind of pay I would receive and told her I needed to talk about it with my husband.

Josh and I played around with numbers and tried to guess what they might come up with. We came in with a target dollar amount that we thought would make it worth it for me to drive back up there to teach for 1 hour and 20 minutes. Remember I was already planning to sub in Chandler 1-2 days a week, so there was a lot to consider.

I received an email from the Assistant Superintendent Friday evening when I had returned home from a night out. She explained how they came up with their numbers taking into account my 10th year now in the district, and the # of minutes I would be teaching each week and presented me with a contact for the year.

Well lets just say that the daily rate for my 80 minutes of teaching on a Monday was much higher than we had guessed, and we realized very quickly that not only would this rate be consistent every two weeks of pay, but I would also be getting this pay over October Break, Christmas Break, Spring Break, and because it is only Mondays I will be teaching, I will be getting Labor Day, Martin Luther King, and President's Day off as well. Pay still included.

This will be a much better deal than subbing twice a week. We feel VERY BLESSED to have this opportunity to do this, and yet I still have the choice to sub any other day of the week if I choose to do so.

So...8 days into my retirement, I am officially UN-Retired. I will now be teaching on an 8 % contract for 80 minutes every Monday. Yahoo for me.