Still in Alaska but to places with more resources. Admittedly my area got hit pretty hard with covid but we are also leading the nation, or at least we were, in terms of vaccinations. I've been basically on lockdown since July and morale is at an all time low. They are finally allowing kids back in the building so that should help boost things. I'm pretty reasonable on a lot of the restrictions but the local BIA hospital is running things and they are going for 0 cases so their recommendations fall in line with that. Unfortunately the mayor is the partner of the chief of staff so the town and school district follow the recommendations to a T. All of this is basically a long winded rant that I want to live somewhere with more options so that the highlight of my summer isn't my gardening.
Job A: One of the locations is Kodiak Island. I actually feel pretty confident that I would get this job but I wouldn't be able to coach basketball in a paid role for a few years. Their head coach is a local guy and maybe 50. Kodiak is drop dead gorgeous and I'd be able to fly fish every day from basically March until December. It's about as expensive as my current location but the teacher pay is less.
Job B: This school is newer and is a combined 6-12 which I really like. It's about 10 minutes outside of Wasilla. The pay is actually pretty close and the cost of living is dramatically less. It's within 440 minutes of Anchorage and all my favorite streams are within an hour. They also have a varsity job open and their admin contacted me since my team normally beats the crap out of them. This is the job I want but it's a huge district and the job has to make it out of district. A lot of times these jobs are filled by people moving from one school to another. If this job isn't open then I don't really want to move to the district. I'd rather just stay where I'm at and test the waters again next year.