#2: Pros and Cons in Every Job

Recently, I have spent countless hours searching for new job posts on craigslist, Zotlink, and Monster. I have been on interviews for advertising jobs, administrative positions, and a plethora of sales jobs. In all of these jobs your success depends on the "number of items sold". Money must exchange hands in order for business to exist and thrive. On a different note, in the education field, teachers "sell" education to young minds. Success is measured much differently. Now seeing that I am currently seeking job opportunities in other fields I must admit that I am satisfied by the notion of being around young people and teaching them stuff everyday. However, I am also attracted to the idea of working as a business woman in the workforce of the adult world and hopefully making good money. Only, making money is never easy no matter what job you have.

Lately I've been thinking that once I get "burned" enough times in the sleazy sales world of dishonest business people, I'll probably go back to pursuing teaching. Although teaching has it's cons also. For starters, the bureaucracy of the education system is enough to make anyone go mad. Secondly, the classroom demographics are often so diverse that it is impossible to meet the needs of all your students. For instance, I student taught in a 4th grade classroom with 34 students where 19 of them were not fluent in English. A handful of these students could not speak English at all! Now how is the teacher supposed to create meaningful, educational, challenging and inspiring lessons everyday that reach everyone in the class? Some students will be bored out of their minds from lack of cognitive stimulation while others will be bored out of their minds from not understanding a single word. I found tasks like these immeasurably daunting and exhausting.

As I continue to pursue my career in this world I'm hopeful that I will find a place where I belong in this universe. I desire a respectable profession that keeps me motivated, happy, and satisfied where I can be inspired to grow and benefit the world everyday.

#1: Educational Experiences with Technology

Deep in my memory I can still recall the first time I ever touched a computer. It came to our house in a white box that had a picture of an apple with rainbow stripes. As Forrest Gump so eloquently stated, "some fruit company". It still does look like a fruit company. After the newness wore off and us kids were allowed to touch this machine thingy, my brother taught me how to play pac-man. At school I remember playing typing games for brief increments of time after lunch. Even though I was only in 1st grade I could already feel that sense of competition rising up in me. "I supposed to be a faster typer than my neighbor... hmmm... well than I should probably use more fingers than my two pointers".

Years down the road my dad got us a new Gateway computer that seemed way more fancier than the previous machine. On this device my family had dial up internet access and my brother could play poker with a stranger from another country. At this point in my life my friends had computers too so we played Oregon Trail a bunch. Somewhere in my middle school years I learned about power point presentations and in high school I took a computer class as an elective. Here I learned some basic excel skills, some word doc shortcuts, and I slightly enhanced my typing wpm.

It was not until my college years that I got a new MacBook. This purchase thrust me into a whole new world of Garage Band, i-tunes, i-dvd, i-move, i-photo...etc. My life is forever changed.