On 10/29/09, mike wrote:
> I am not a teacher. I am a depressed college student looking at different
> career choices. I used to have a strong desire to teach but have heard many
> different things, including how the dept is rife with problems of politics,
> the rubber room, image of school rather than educating the kids. I'm not
> going to lie, the benefits and summers off to continue my academic
> interests are whats mainly attracting me. I used to naively think that I
> could somehow maybe shape children's lives but I've come to accept that
> your only there to reach a few out of the majority that don't care. I grew
> up in a low income, dysfunctional family with a multitude of psychological
> problems, abused drugs, attempted suicide, been in jail. I know I can
> perform this job better than most people can for the most part because of
> how I can understand what a teenager/child is going through intuitively.
> However I do not want to be over stressed with bs and being under
> appreciated. Most of the teachers I have met that taught me in community
> college struck to impress me as people who were not the most intelligent
> people in the world and that only taught because they didn't know what to
> do with their lives. I feel that it would be waste for me to not lead in
> the classroom but at the same time want to live comfortably with a decent
> salary.

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