Feeling better, thank you

I've re-read my last entry and my, I do sound kind of bitter, don't I? I appreciate all the supportive comments/emails I received. Things aren't really that gloomy. If my husband were not making enough money we might be worried, but that isn't the case. This Friday I joined a knitting group.  It was a little impersonal but but just being there made me keep working on that long blue sock.  This Monday I have another interview, but this time it's different. I'm applying as a volunteer tutor for an adult education program. My first teaching experiences were also in adult education, so this is not going to be new to me. And volunteering is really a positive experience. When I first came to the U.S. I was a volunteer at a middle school, and in my last job I also volunteered as a hospital interpreter. I was hoping to get a job before volunteering for anything else, to avoid scheduling conflicts, but those worries are becoming less and less founded as I realize how difficult it is for an employer to sponsor a visa. Apparently, they would have to prove that there is no way they could find someone else with my abilities in the U.S. in order to get me a worker's visa. There is a limited number of those visas issued each year,  and most of them go to the computer science field. I should feel lucky that my husband got one of those and that I can still call myself legal, even if as his spouse I'm not allowed to work. I'm sure that staying busy will keep me cheerful enough to keep on knitting and blogging about it.