text: [Themes: modern, humor]
  
  So you've just gotten your degree in education? Think you have all the strategies to run a successful classroom? This will be a piece of cake. Yeah, right. Let's see if you can even make it through the first year.
  
  First step, getting a job:
  
  Well time to put this education to good use and actually find some place to teach. Pulling up a chair in your all too familiar home office, you get on the computer and start looking around at a few local job openings. You jot down a few notes on what you find.
  
  Green Meadows Academy- A large religious based boarding school out in the country. They have a job opening for a political science teacher. They pay well, but you are required to live on campus and have various other duties other than teaching. Additionally, positions at this school are highly sought after so it will likely be rather competitive.
  
  Edgewood High- A local area public high school. Not known for being the best performing school, It's certainly not the place you would want to make a long career, but it's job and that is better than nothing. The opening is for a health teacher. You think you'll have fairly good chance of getting this job since the school already has a high turnover rate. Then again there's probably reason so many teachers quit. But you're up for the challenge right?
  
  Oakwood Middle and High- A local area middle school and high school with an opening for a science teacher. It's all around a fairly average school. The pay is average and so are the benefits. There don't appear to be any glaring problems with the school although there was a recent administrative change.
  
  > Oakwood
  Putting on your Sunday best so to speak, you head off to your interview. When you arrive, you are slightly confused as to where to go.
  
  You think to yourself. He said meet me in the principal's office? But where is that exactly. I knew I should checked that email again. You pull out your phone again hoping to find some additional information, but alas there is no other information other than that the interviewer's name is Mr. Smith. You wander the building for a few more minutes looking for some signs. The building is fairly large with hallways branching off in four directions from the main lobby. It seems all the signs have been removed over the summer for some renovations or something. If you don't hurry you're going to be late, and that's no good. You have some decisions to make.
  
  So you've just gotten your degree in education? Think you have all the strategies to run a successful classroom? This will be a piece of cake. Yeah, right. Let's see if you can even make it through the first year.
  
  First step, getting a job:
  
  Well time to put this education to good use and actually find some place to teach. Pulling up a chair in your all too familiar home office, you get on the computer and start looking around at a few local job openings. You jot down a few notes on what you find.
  
  Green Meadows Academy- A large religious based boarding school out in the country. They have a job opening for a political science teacher. They pay well, but you are required to live on campus and have various other duties other than teaching. Additionally, positions at this school are highly sought after so it will likely be rather competitive.
  
  Edgewood High- A local area public high school. Not known for being the best performing school, It's certainly not the place you would want to make a long career, but it's job and that is better than nothing. The opening is for a health teacher. You think you'll have fairly good chance of getting this job since the school already has a high turnover rate. Then again there's probably reason so many teachers quit. But you're up for the challenge right?
  
  Oakwood Middle and High- A local area middle school and high school with an opening for a science teacher. It's all around a fairly average school. The pay is average and so are the benefits. There don't appear to be any glaring problems with the school although there was a recent administrative change.
  
  > Green Meadows
  Beep. Beep. Beep. The alarm chimes waking you from your nightly slumber. It's the day of the job interview. You had to get up early to drive out to the country where the school is. You hop in your car and begin the one hour commute. You feel a bit nervous as you will be competing against twenty other people for only one position. As you were about to leave, it begins to downpour rain. You know the roads can be a bit dangerous in this much rain, but if you don't go then you definitely won't get the job.
  
  > cancel and apply to Oakwood
  Putting on your Sunday best so to speak, you head off to your interview. When you arrive, you are slightly confused as to where to go.
  
  You think to yourself. He said meet me in the principal's office? But where is that exactly. I knew I should checked that email again. You pull out your phone again hoping to find some additional information, but alas there is no other information other than that the interviewer's name is Mr. Smith. You wander the building for a few more minutes looking for some signs. The building is fairly large with hallways branching off in four directions from the main lobby. It seems all the signs have been removed over the summer for some renovations or something. If you don't hurry you're going to be late, and that's no good. You have some decisions to make.
  
  Beep. Beep. Beep. The alarm chimes waking you from your nightly slumber. It's the day of the job interview. You had to get up early to drive out to the country where the school is. You hop in your car and begin the one hour commute. You feel a bit nervous as you will be competing against twenty other people for only one position. As you were about to leave, it begins to downpour rain. You know the roads can be a bit dangerous in this much rain, but if you don't go then you definitely won't get the job.
  
  > cancel and apply to Edgewood
  Upon arriving at the high school, you notice how much it is falling apart. You go to the door only to discover that it is locked. You knock on the door and eventually a construction worker comes and opens the door for you.
  
  "Hey, what do you need?" she says.
  
  "I'm here for a job interview," you say.
  
  "Oh? Didn't you hear? Edgewood isn't going to be open next year," she replies.
  
  "Really? Where are the students going to be," you ask a bit confused as you hadn't heard anything about this yet.
  
  "Oh, they'll be transferred to the other area schools I suppose. Mainly Oakwood." She says, "I don't know why you would have been directed for a job interview here."
  
  "Oh well thank you," you say returning to your car which you find now has a smashed in window. "Well, great. That's just fucking great."
  
  You sigh and go back home.
  
  Beep. Beep. Beep. The alarm chimes waking you from your nightly slumber. It's the day of the job interview. You had to get up early to drive out to the country where the school is. You hop in your car and begin the one hour commute. You feel a bit nervous as you will be competing against twenty other people for only one position. As you were about to leave, it begins to downpour rain. You know the roads can be a bit dangerous in this much rain, but if you don't go then you definitely won't get the job.
  
  > continue the trip
  This job is all that matters now, why let a little rain stop you? Besides you won't get hired if you're late or cancel so better get a move on. Nothing will stop you now. To hell with the rain. Your eyes glanced between the GPS display and blurring road ahead of you. You sped up a bit turned on the pounding bass of your favorite music to drown out the noise. This wasn't so bad just a few miles, and you would have been there.
  
  That is you would have been there if that hadn't all changed in an instant. As you were rounding a corner, you barely didn't have time to miss a car that had its lights off. You barely had time to scream as the airbag slammed into your face spinning your head around. The car tumbled off the road before crashing into a barrier and coming to rest wrapped around a tree. Then everything was silent except the soft pitter patter of rain across the wreckage.
  
  The car had flipped so many times that you became disorientated. As you faded in and out of consciousness you were vaguely aware of a bloody taste in your mouth.
  
  It was two hours before anyone found you and by then it was too late.