Thank you goodbye

 Today I received an email inviting me to a 0.4 counsellijg contract at an elementary school. I find it strange that it was not an invitation to a job interview, but rather an invitation to a job, with an offer to work around my schedule if I didn’t like the two days that were being offered.  This is, of course, a sign of the times and a sign of how few mental health counsellors there are available right now, compounded by the fact that the public school system is becoming more nightmarish every year. I have no experience with elementary school children and I think I would rather keep it that way. And 0.4 is more of my freedom than I would care to lose. Tomorrow I will thank this principal graciously for contacting me and turn down the offer. I have enough on my plate, and having never been particularly good at recognizing that, I am trying to start. It’s funny, when I quit my full time job in March I was disappointed that they didn’t have a small contract to keep me slightly connected. But now that it has been almost a year (how did that happen?) I can’t say I miss it anymore or that I would accept a contract like that at this point. My new life is so much calmer.