Does any one else hear Woody Guthrie songs playing in the background?

My goal was to have a job as a teacher by the end of this month. You may remember that I went back to school and turned my many years as a reading and literacy tutor into a brand spankin' new Education Specialist Credential. This was supposedly a solid career choice. As always, my timing is impeccable.

At this point I'd be happy for a job interview before the end of the month.

Does anybody know what an:

• AA in English
• BA in English education, (with student teaching exp.)
  
• Education Specialist teaching credential, and
• Many years of experience tutoring: literacy, reading, and English (a little math as well)
  

can be used for besides teaching?

Concessions

Hotel Nights With My Mother
-Linda McCarriston

The hometown flophouse
was what she could afford
the nights he came after us
with a knife. I'd grab my books,
already dreading the next day's
explanations of homework undone
- I ran out of paper - the lies
I'd invent standing in front of
the nuns in the clothes I'd lain in
full-bladdered all night, a flimsy
chair-braced door between us
and the hallway's impersonal riot.

Years later, then, in the next
city, standing before my first class,
I scanned the rows of faces,
their cumulative skill in the
brilliant adolescent dances
of self-presentation, of hiding,
New teacher, looking young, seeming
gullible, I know, I let them
give me any excuse and took it.
I was watching them all

for the dark circled eyes,
yesterday's crumpled costume, the marks
- the sorrowful coloring of marks -
the cuticles flaming and torn.
I made of myself each day a chink
a few might pass through unscathed.

Teaching With Fire (2003).