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Super_Ideal_Rock
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I love my job. I teach English full-time at a community college.
It has taken a number of career changes to get to this point. I took a job working with actuaries right after college. Loved the actuaries, hated working in a traditional office.
I left to attend law school, but not because I was really passionate about law. I just really disliked my job and managed to get a full scholarship to a local law school, so it seemed like the lesser of two evils. I quit after one semester to earn my teaching certificate.
While in grad school to earn that teaching cert, I taught reading part-time in a local community college. Loved it.
I got a FT job teaching high school, but never gave up my part-time CC courses. My high school paid for me to earn my MEd in reading and literacy, so I became a state-certified reading specialist.
Things got icky in the high school after a new set of administrators came in. I had been teaching CC part-time for six years at that point, and decided I wanted to make the switch and do that FT. I quit my HS job in June and landed a FT TT position in an amazing community college the following April. This is my second year teaching at said amazing college, and I love it.
I decided on teaching because I had always felt a calling to be a teacher, but never wanted to admit it. I spent some time shadowing my mother's teacher friends and decided it was the right career for me.
The only other career I would really love would be to be a full-time writer.
It has taken a number of career changes to get to this point. I took a job working with actuaries right after college. Loved the actuaries, hated working in a traditional office.
I left to attend law school, but not because I was really passionate about law. I just really disliked my job and managed to get a full scholarship to a local law school, so it seemed like the lesser of two evils. I quit after one semester to earn my teaching certificate.
While in grad school to earn that teaching cert, I taught reading part-time in a local community college. Loved it.
I got a FT job teaching high school, but never gave up my part-time CC courses. My high school paid for me to earn my MEd in reading and literacy, so I became a state-certified reading specialist.
Things got icky in the high school after a new set of administrators came in. I had been teaching CC part-time for six years at that point, and decided I wanted to make the switch and do that FT. I quit my HS job in June and landed a FT TT position in an amazing community college the following April. This is my second year teaching at said amazing college, and I love it.
I decided on teaching because I had always felt a calling to be a teacher, but never wanted to admit it. I spent some time shadowing my mother's teacher friends and decided it was the right career for me.
The only other career I would really love would be to be a full-time writer.