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Originally Posted by Starkizzer
Then it was chemist, then chemical engineer (Tried this for awhile...NO WAY IN HELL. I do not have the brain of an engineer...I mean come on have you MET one!  ) |
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I always wanted to be a teacher, actually. There were phases I went through where I'd think, "Oh, Sally Ride is cool, I'd like to be an astronaut" or "Writing is fun. I'd like to be a writer." But one of the games I used to play as a kid was "school"--I'd draft all the neighborhood kids into my little mock classroom and give them textbooks. I had a lot of textbooks (dad's a former principal, he got a lot of free samples). This leads me to believe I was in denial about my true calling for a long time, simply because I spent a lot of time around people who actually worked in schools, and knew how much work it was.
It took me teaching my 11th grade history class for extra credit to open my eyes. My history teacher wrote me an evaluation that said at the bottom, "YOU SHOULD TEACH!" When a truly masterful teacher, as he was, tells you you should teach, you listen.