In 1990, I felt that I was ready to make a progressive step in my career and needed to move on from the school where I had been teaching for a number of years. Although I had been short-listed for the senior executive position at this school, my application had finally been rejected. It seemed clear that my next career step lay elsewhere.
I resigned from my teaching position at the end of the school year and began scouring the newspapers and professional magazines for a replacement position, all the time trusting that every right idea brings with it whatever is necessary to support it.
The new school year starts in February in Australia. Around the middle of January 1991, I had not yet secured a teaching position, and I began to be challenged by doubt. Our five older boys were ready to start school again, and the youngest was to start kindergarten. Interest rates were at an all-time high, and our mortgage payments had skyrocketed as a result. The expenses of caring for a large family had to be met.
