Butchers, Bakers, or Candlestick Makers

I'm so excited to be a teacher.
Really, it's going to be the best job EVAR.

Office job: "I commute to work; this means being 1 car out of a kazillion others. The freeway is so crowded that's basically a parking lot. There's usually some honking because everyone else is just as bored and irritated as I am. I sign in at 9 and sit down at my cubicle. I answer phones and file papers and stuff...sometimes there's a presentation to be made or, if we really want to spice things up, a meeting. I sometimes get deja voux and then realize that this sequence of events actuallyHAS happened before. I get stressed out and then commute back home just in time for the afternoon rush."

No. Thanks.
One thing I loved about The Office is that it's people (namely Jim and Pam) taking a situation like that, where their lives are so monotonous and life-sucking, and they turn it into something to look forward to by being inventive.

My job is going to be amazing. I get to be around childhood, which was one of the best times of my life in some respects. I have so many fond memories of my elementary school years -- I'm positive that my purpose is to make those memories for other people.

I remember what it was like to be a kid; your imagination is so active and you're SO influenced by your experiences in the environment around you. You're energetic and creative and observant and thoughtful -- I remember really being quite the philosopher as a kid! Why am I not like that now? I miss that part of me. And I remember being naive and judgemental too, but I also remember times when I truly cared about...about everything.

When you're a kid, you can look at a chair and not just see it as a chair, but you can totally take the chair's perspective and believe that it has a soul or something. I distinctly remember doing things like apologizing to sticks for stepping on them and cracking them in half, and honestly feeling really bad about hurting something. It was so easy to imagine what a stick's daily life was like. Why aren't adults like that more often? And I see it in other kids now, too; I know it's not just me.

When I'm a teacher I will get to foster and nourish that blissful state of being in other people. I'll get to watch the imaginations of these human beings flouish. I'll get to see these future doctors and mothers and construction workers as they are in one of the best times of their lives. I'll get to give them something that they can smile about when they recall it years later. I'll get to put all of myself into helping them unlock their abilities and strenghts, and I'll get the reward of seeing them discover what is inside themselves.

And with every year, I will discover something new about myself as my own creativity will be demanded by this job. It's going to be the most exciting and rewarding thing that I could ever do.

I actually feel a ligitimate yearning to do this. I know I'm meant for it, and that's such an amazing feeling.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1K2QRLpMWgY&feature=related
I love this movie. Miss Honey is my hero :-)

"Everyone is born, but not everyone is born the same. Some will grow to be butchers, or bakers, or candlestick makers. Some will only be really good at making Jell-O salad. One way or another, though, every human being is unique, for better or for worse."
--Matilda