4. The Job Interviews
Obviously, with Trevor and Laura now running their own supermarkets and earning loads of dosh, its time for you to go out there and get a job and get by on the Newly-Qualified Teacher starting wage. Interview after interview is thrown in your path only for variations of Sarah the Swot, Chris the Kool Kid and even Keith getting there in front of you. Its terrifying. Will you have to become a supply teacher? Laughed out of every school you enter by staff and students?! Then, the news. Thank God, the news. Mr Weary is retiring. The Principal pulls you aside and says that, although the job will be advertised, its a good as yours. The day of the interview passes brilliantly. The micro-teach is a selection of A* kids because management want to trick the prospective teachers into thinking their students are all great and the interview goes brilliantly. Then the phone call... YOU GOT IT!!! GET IN! GET IN! GET IN! YOU GOT IT!!! Its only moments later you realise it means another two years of Barry, Garry and Carrie. Of the same staff conversations. Of... well, being a teacher for the rest of your life. You weep into your absinthe.