Gladly!
Thumbnail version, some of which you already know:
After several years of steadily climbing misery, I left a PhD program in history in 2011, knowing I wanted to stay in Atlanta and teach high school. I ended up teaching middle school at a Christian school in the Atlanta suburbs for 2.5 years, before they drafted me to move up to the high school (within the same private school) for the last 2.5 years.
All along, I had targeted one specific Atlanta-area school, known for elite but very innovative and often unconventional academics, as my mountaintop goal. This school called me earlier during this spring semester to ask if I was interested in two openings: one in the high school and one in the middle. After several months of twists and turns, I got the call this past Thursday to tell me that I've earned my spot there. I'm headed back to middle school, which I found myself really drawn to in some surprising ways. I have had a wonderful 5 years at my current place of employment, accomplished a lot professionally and built friendships with some great people. But my new gig is a better philosophical fit and a major financial and logistical upgrade (my daily round trip commute will go from 44 miles and about 80-85 minutes, to 8 miles and about 20 minutes...the gasoline savings alone will be about $1200 a year). It's the culmination of a lot of major personal and professional goals, and I see my new school as pretty much the end of the line for me, the kind of place where I envision being until my retirement (which is still well in the future).