How I Became a Teacher
I’d worked with young people in the restaurant business. I realized that in every job I had had in the restaurant business, I was always that person who helped with the new employees. I set up their training schedules, set up their trainers, worked with them to make sure they understood what their new job was about, set up all of their training regimens, and made sure that they went through all the different stations, and got all the information they needed. What I realized was that I’d always been a teacher. Even in the restaurant business, I’d always been a teacher.
So making that jump from there to the classroom was not a hard leap for me. The hardest thing was to walk into the first classroom that I had to go back to as a college student, when I was 31 years old. I remember standing out in the hallway. It was a Saturday morning, it was a Comp 101 class, and trying to decide if I really wanted to go in there, if I was going to open that door and go in. After I did, I realized that I had made the right decision. It was just so much fun to get back into the classroom as a student, and know that I was eventually going to be a teacher.