When I grow up...

I love hearing about people and what life decisions they have made to shape who they are and what they do. Someone could start out wanting to be a fighter pilot and turn out to be a rodeo clown, though usually not that drastic, but who knows. For Megan, her career decisions started in high school with a life guard job, a seemingly perfect job. What is better than getting paid to bask in the sun all day? During college she worked part time with her mom and dad at a desk job. For the summers, she worked at Frost Valley Summer Camp. This might have been the start of her “teaching career.” The feeling of helping people, kids in particular really grabs hold of certain people and may not let go. After that she started to be interested in teaching. She did different student teaching programs and enjoyed that very much. She then taught high school students for a time as well. It was during this time when she acquired a student stalker, which is I guess a byproduct of being a really good teacher?? The stalker wrote her letters from the perspective of characters in novels and even wrote her eulogy. Pretty creepy. Megan found a love for teaching and has stuck with it ever since. It is interesting to really examine our goals and plans from the beginning and then see how life has led us further or closer to them over time. Megan found that teaching is her passion and has stuck with it. Who knows what she wanted to be when she was a little girl, but she enjoys teaching and the fulfillment that it brings, and that’s all that matters.