Ever since I was little, I've wanted to be a teacher. Honestly I wanted to be a princess but that's a lot of work. The thought of teaching a child skills that are going to help them achieve in life is so rewarding to me.
When I first tell people that I'm going to college to major in education, the common response is a laugh and "good luck paying for your future with that one". What non-education majors don't realize is, I'm not going to college just for the paycheck I'll be getting once I become a teacher, but the fact that I know I'm changing someone's life. We all have that one teacher who has change our perspective on school and learning. I want to be that teacher for someone someday. Yes, teaching is not a very well paying job, but honestly I don't care. I get to teach a child something new every day. That's enough of a payment for me.
Honestly, I don't want to work with adults all my life. Adults are mean and crabby and I REALLY don't want to sit in an office all day dealing with that. I would much rather spend the day with children in a colorful classroom. I don't know about you, but I would much rather do arts and crafts then sit in a cubicle filling out paperwork.
Yes, getting summers off is a huge bonus. But it's not even close to my reasoning of becoming a teacher. Honestly, it's not even a break. Teachers spend a majority of their summers preparing for the next school year. Because unlike some careers, we get to restart all over again in the beginning of September. Whether it's teaching summer school, getting supplies ready for the upcoming school year, or learning new subjects so we can teach them better next year, teachers never stop working.
"Haha you're stuck in school the rest of your life", that just means I get to learn something new for the rest of my life. Every child is different. By being a teacher, you need the ability to be flexible and able to adapt to every new class of students and how they are going to grasp what you are teaching them. It is their future, not mine. I'm just happy I get to be apart of it.
Let's face it, to some people there are more important career choices out there in the world. Such as; doctors, lawyers, police officers, firefighters, business men and women, etc. But what these people don't realize is the fact the world will always need teachers. There is always going to be new children coming into this world that need to be educated in order to be successful in our everyday culture. So going to college and majoring in education may not seem to be as "successful" as going to college and majoring in biochemistry, but remember someone out there had to have majored in education first, in order for you to be able to learn everything you did for your major.
