I guess I'd have to say that this is the point I've finally realized where I'm at, and what I can really sell about myself. I've gotten the best responses, the most responses, and essentially experienced the most success, selling myself as a teacher, such as I can at the moment. Which is old news. More to the point, I went on a few of the different job sites I've been to, and had 2 or 3 resumes on, and deleted all but the ones that were really seeming to get me anywhere. It just doesn't make any damn sense, number one, to try and sell what's not fresh, because people don't buy it any more in an interview than they would at Meijer's. The other part of it, of course, is that if you're stretching that much, people seem to NOTICE that you're stretching, and will similarly be less inclined to make that big step. If I ever could come through with that one perfect job that tied everything that makes me up in a nice little package, that would be great. As it is, fresh and enthusiastic, ready to work and ready to serve, are the biggies, and concentrating on anything else is pretty much wasted motion. Granted, people will probably be more than happy to tell me about situations where they have changed, and I know people have, probably more than me. But unless you can make a big, visible change, anything is gonna be a hard sell. And having been through the hard sell, and subsequent failure, in a lot of aspects of my life, I think it just serves me better to keep it simple. That dirty word again; FOCUS. And, of course, in combination with everything else that's happening at the moment, it's all probably just as well.