choices

We're all forced to make decisions in our lives. Some of them are good decisions that help life move along. Some of them make a great impact on your life, and others change very little. Some of them change everything. I'm faced right now with one of those decisions. Tim wants me to do my student teaching next Spring which would allow me to enter the job market in the Fall of 2010. For me, decisions have always been made at critical junctures in my life. Very few of them have come with long-term goals attached. Here I am now...where do I want to be in two years? All I can think about now is where to work this summer. I think it's hard to wrap my mind around having an actual job where I don't have to write my time down on a time sheet or clock in on a time clock. Actually being a paid professional with high expectations and responisibilies.

I know we don't all get to make the decision that we're going to grow up. Most people are forced into it. They have a kid, they land a high-pressure job, they meet someone they want to spend the rest of their lives with and get married and that makes them "grown up." I've made the decision to "grow up" but I know that I've got some time before I actually have to be.

Money is one of the main reasons I wanted to be a teacher and now it's the one thing that's slowing down the process. Now I just need to find someone who will give me more of it and I'm on my way. I voted for Change, now let's see if I can get some of it.