Turning Point in my Life

I will start with a little backstory.

From the start of High School back in 2004 I developed a desire to teach middle school math. I had a great middle school math experience that helped my ambitions in High School. I devoted an elective class for 3 years to learning how to be a teacher and spend time in elementary school classrooms. I graduated in 2008 and went right to College at ASU in Arizona and devoted all four years to becoming a teacher.

After failing to be successful enough to be asked back to the school or allowed back in the district 3 years in a row, I feel that even though I spent the last 10 years or so towards this one life goal, it may not be what is best for me.

In a strange turn of events, my ex (who I am still great friends with) is now happily married and her husband is a manager at a resort and is looking for new employee's and I cant pass this opportunity up.

My family isn't ready for this kind of change in my life, but I am ok with that because I wont let it change me.

I will be honest, I had hoped that I would never have to think of what I would do if teaching didn't work out, but I can only beat my head against the brick wall of education so long before I realize it may not be what is best for me.

It is not to say that it was all for nothing, I will still have my B.A. and 3 years of work experience as I move on.

I am lucky to have a friend that has a job opportunity for me. I do not know what I would do if I didn't get this chance. I still have a month left of teaching and there are so many students that disrespect me consistently every day and it has gotten to the point that If I didn't have the professional integrity that I do, I would want to walk away from this abuse that I allow myself to endure every day for hours. I just keep reminding myself that there are those that want to learn and I keep going back for them.

That sums up this current turning point in my life.

I always say if you are passionate about what you do, then it is never work.

You simply wake up with a desire to be where you have to be because you simply want to.

You are taking a positive attitude with you to this new job and that is great. Best wishes to you. Your family will adapt to the idea in time.

I can totally relate. In college, I was determined to be a lawyer. I went through a year of law school and realized this was not what I wanted to do, I had an idealized vision of it. Social services ended up my niche. Yeah, I don't make as much money and some people don't understand why I voluntarily walked away from law school but you have to do something that fulfills you.

A job can be generally a place you work where there is to much time in the day(cant wait for it to end) and then there is a career where there is never enough time in the day. I have come to a point that teaching has become a job and not a career for me.

If I ever want to go back to teaching, it will be because I am ready to make it career, not just a job. The students deserve a teacher who wants to be there and I need to be adult enough to realize that these students this year have squeezed that desire out of me and it is time to seek a new path.