{"id":15508,"date":"2015-11-13T11:29:15","date_gmt":"2015-11-13T17:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/?p=15508"},"modified":"2015-11-13T11:30:37","modified_gmt":"2015-11-13T17:30:37","slug":"humans-of-imsa-an-aspiring-teacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/2015\/11\/13\/humans-of-imsa-an-aspiring-teacher\/","title":{"rendered":"Humans of IMSA: Aspiring Teacher"},"content":{"rendered":"

This edition of Humans of IMSA features an inteviewee who shares some recently-realized career ambitions. The interviewee has asked to remain anonymous. -Acronym staff<\/em><\/p>\n

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I started wanting to be an architect, and I thought that was what was right for me because that was always what I wanted to do. I went to college for all of two months before I realized \u201cAyyyyy, No.\u201d I thought I was gonna be an architect; I bought my T-square and everything. I was so down to be an architect and I enjoyed the classes and then I actually went out and I did it. And that was garbage, dude. I went and it didn\u2019t click, you know what I mean? I was so set, since my junior year of high school, like \u201cThis is it, this is it.\u201d And it wasn\u2019t. And that\u2019s good. And I\u2019m glad that happened, because I knew it wasn\u2019t for me instead of continuing my career, being miserable and wasting all of that money.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s my biggest advice: do it. Don\u2019t just go, \u201cOh I\u2019ve been studying for this, oh I should do this.\u201d Go do it first. Because you don\u2019t know if you like something until you try it. If you like it, then it will give you more of a gift to continue that as a career. If you don\u2019t like it then you realize you wasted your time doing something that wasn\u2019t for you.<\/p>\n

And other people say, \u201cOh blah blah no one likes their job.\u201d Well you know, I don\u2019t believe that. I think those people that do not like their jobs either got pushed into that off of situation and circumstance, or they thought that is what they wanted, and never wanted it.<\/p>\n

I actually think I want to be an English teacher. I have always excelled in English. Every teacher I have ever bonded with was an English teacher. School was too \u201cschool\u201d for me. I enjoy learning; I do not enjoy being lectured. I do not enjoy being talked at. But if you talk to me, that\u2019s fine. And I feel like that\u2019s what I can bring to the table. I wanna give my \u201cflavah\u201d to the school.<\/p>\n

If you feel like you wanna do something, just make sure you try it first. Because you never know. Some people know whether they try it or not, you know what I mean? Like some people know. I\u2019m not going to say that your intuition is wrong. If you know what you want to do and you know that this feels right, then it feels right. But for some people, it doesn\u2019t and you have that doubt. That\u2019s why you gotta go, try it out, see if that\u2019s what\u2019s right for you. Don\u2019t YOLO it. That\u2019s the rest of your life. Don\u2019t YOLO it.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m an alternative teacher. People will be like, \u201cOh you have to know what you wanna be by blah blah time.\u201d You\u2019re not gonna know. Even when you\u2019re in college you\u2019re not gonna know. You\u2019re not. And some people die without passions. To me, it\u2019s all interest.<\/p>\n

Keep that not knowing. You know what I mean? Don\u2019t settle on nothing. If it\u2019s something you wanna do, devote time to it. But don\u2019t let it monopolize your time and end up being something that falls flat. And then what? You just spent two years of your life doing this, and it was not for you. You gotta wise up.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s my 22 year-old advice.<\/p>\n

My whole family is either medical or military. And I don\u2019t wanna do any of that. I don\u2019t know what I wanna do. I think I\u2019m going to be an English teacher. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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