ABSTRACT
Most student teachers can relate to Maddie's feelings of uncertainty and anxiety associated with the job application process. This chapter reveals wobble moments in both personal and professional spaces launch identities into a state of flux that can cause people to question their decisions, abilities, and worth. It explores the opening stages of this professional teacher identity construction, which often led to existential wobble moments as what they felt they should be doing and what they were actually doing seemed in conflict. A week later Maddie updated her narrative, saying she did not get the job at her current school and that they hired a candidate from a different university whom the administration had never seen teach. She described her feelings as fluctuating between “really mad or really sad” as she tried to garner the strength to persevere with the job hunt.
