positives and negatives

It is now nearing the end of July and I have yet to land a teaching job for September. Considering the dimishing number of weeks between now and the start of school, the situation is not looking very good.

I've decided to come up with a list of the things that would be positive about living at home for a year. They are as follows:

1. I will be able to spend time with the friends I have gotten closer to this Summer.
2. I will be closer to my Grandparents.
3. My parents will charge minimal rent, allowing me to save almost as much money as I make (excepting car insurance, car payment and student loans).
4. I will be able to spend the year gaining classroom management experience substitute teaching.
5. My experience will move me up the pay scale for when I do find a job.

However, with the creation of this list, comes the counter list. That is, things that are negative about living at home for a year:

1. Glen Arden is stifling and working there every day for a year will damage my psyche.
2. Not having a full time job means no health insurance.
3. Even with working two jobs, I will be making about 1/3 of the money of most entry level teaching jobs.
4. I worry that my ever-increasingly good relationship with my parents will falter if I live at home for a long time.
5. I will feel like a failure.
6. My lack of upwards movement may create a serious rift between myself and my more successful friends from college.
7. I will lose whatever self-confidence I managed to gain over the last four years.
8. Boomerang children are portrayed in society as couch potato nothings who waste their education and have no aspirations.