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summer
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Date: December 19, 2021 11:38AM
This is a continuation of the previously closed thread:
https://www.exmormon.org/phorum/read.php?2,2067828When I responded to this thread, I was miserable in my career. But at that point, I had it in mind to change the focus of my teaching career. A friend of mine had already made the jump into another, more desirable certification area, and I was thinking about following her. By that spring, I was pushed into a position where I no longer had to think about it all that much. Change was coming. I determined that I would have some say in how that change played out.
So, I worked hard to get my new certification, and made the switch. The result has been wonderful in almost every way. I no longer have to deal with angry, rude, violent students. I no longer have the tremendous work burdens that classroom teachers have to endure. My commute to work is now the shortest I have had in many years. And I have a wonderful principal and agreeable colleagues.
My life improved due in part to luck, but a lot of it was me making it happen. I enjoy my job now, and I may work past the age at which I had planned to retire. No more "enduring."
Sometimes we endure because we must, but the end goal should always be one of enjoyment of life.