I wasn't going to tell anyone. But, well.
I rock!
Ahem.
Sorry, don't mean to be quite so brash, but it's true. Sure, I don't rock as hard as the person who got 200 out of 200 on the Teacher General Science Content Knowledge Praxis test. But I got 181. Thinking positively, I'm the absolute top of the middle!
Yay me! Wait, why am I so excited about passing a test that could see me end up working?
Dunno. Oh, wait, you didn't know? Yep, I've been taking various tests to show proficiency in sciences to demonstrate my ability to serve as a secondary teacher (middle/high school) without actually, you know, becoming a teacher. Called the Teacher in Residence program, it's used when a State (Colorado if you've not been following along) is desperate for teachers.
On the job training didn't sound good, apparently.
So, now that all the good jobs are gone, they look around for suckers like me who are still interested in grabbing a job.
Why teach?
There's a fundamental reason. Thoes kidz gotz to lurn somehow! And I've always wanted to teach (professionally, as opposed to just part of my job evangelizing the Internet). I've done some college teaching because of my companies, but nothing really official.
Heh.
Nobody really wants to hear about that mushy stuff though, they want to understand, no, why teach? Seriously?
Lifestyle. As you may have noticed, Travel Pete is all about the Travel Lifestyle.
Now, some may suggest I want a job to partially avoid hearing my son say, "I'll fart on your bottom" and other great sayings. True, perhaps, but this job won't help.
No, it's something different. It keeps me away from high-pressure jobs that keep me away from my family. In a nutshell. And I get all the right holidays off. As opposed to that poor man I call Dad who's spent his entire life sewing up sickies on Christmas. Pheh.
Posted by BilFish at April 11, 2006 05:55 AM