Finally! Some Direction!

My college experience sucked. Four years of classes, tuition, and the dreaded weekend team meetings. Finally came out in the end with a Bachelor's degree in Business Management from the University of Central Florida. Yawn Yawn. I never really stopped to think what I wanted to be and I just went through the motions of getting it done. Business seemed logical and easy. I didn't make many college friends, or party hearty, or even hang around the campus. I went in and out and on with life. But walking across the stage and shaking hands for my degree definately was the most proudest moment in my life thus far.

While I was going to school part time, I was working full time and that surely didn't help my outlook on college. It wasn't too long after I graduated that the economy took a dump and I'm stuck in a job pushing papers and answering the telephone. I'm grateful to have a job but the real estate industry is definately not my cup of tea. It pays the bills, but my job has no meaning. It's mindless and I'm outright BORED STIFF. What else could I do? I had no experience in anything else, and nobody was hiring anyway.

Last year I got the notion to become a teacher but I was only eligible to teach Business classes to high school students ( I rather eat dirt than deal with hormonal, rude teenagers.) I applied to a ton of jobs, but a couple things were against me. 1) I had zero, zip, nada teaching experience 2) I wasn't qualified to teach and 3) Teacher's were being fired not hired because of budget cuts. I dropped the issue and piddled away at my job.

A couple weeks ago I caught wind of a program that would help me get my Professional Teaching Certificate. It's 9 months long, on Saturday's and I do a new class every 5 weeks. I want to teach in Elementary schools so then I take the State exams and I should be much more lucrative for a teaching position. I'm very excited to be back in school studying for something I really want to give a shot. Classes start July 18th and even though it'll eat up my entire Saturday, its not a forever program. Its only 9 months and I'll be learning tools that I would actually use. By then, the economy would be improving and turning around favorably. If not, I'll wait it out and when it does I'll be ready to step into some new shoes. Hopefully, when I look back at this posting 9 months from now I'll say - Damn, I just wrote that the other day!