To Teach or not To Teach?

I believe in signs.

Not in any extreme--I take most things with a grain of salt; however, if something keeps coming up in my life then I usually step back and ask why that is.

Have you ever had a subject come up and up and yet you keep setting it aside? Only to have it show up in your life again? For me, it has been teaching. I have gone back and forth about my career choice when I graduate. I researched different schools (private) and their method of teaching. I looked at how to get my degree in teaching, etc. Eventually, though, the reality of how little teachers make (in many cases, less than I am now) made me put the idea of teaching back up on the shelf.

But then it just kept showing up in my life. I just recently learned that DU has an accelerated program for graduates to get their teaching license and do their student teaching and be ready to enter a classroom as a new teacher--in only 9 months! I also came across the Teach For America program months ago and was really interested. It's a paid form of volunteering for Americorps--only you teach. Check it out HERE ---I took it off my radar and then low and behold it shows up AGAIN. My mom saw a whole story on it on the news in fact.

It just keeps presenting itself, this teaching thing, so I figure, maybe I should really consider it. I told a friend about the salary issue (as in I want to make a decent one) and she told me about some private schools that pay upwards of 60 to 70K a year! I had no idea that even existed.

So, here I am again...thinking, maybe I WILL do this when I graduate. Why not, right? So...I'll let the idea "marinate" for awhile and see what happens. I think I will get an answer if I contemplate, meditate and pray on it enough.

Or, I could just check some oracle cards....like THESE.

:-)

Seriously, though...keep me in your thoughts and prayers about this...I have always felt that if we bug God enough, he has to answer us ;-).

Blessings,

N