Self discovery as a Teacher

While we were still very young, most of us had a dream of who we wanted to become in life and we even calculated it in our head as to how to achieve our dreams.

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As per the calculations I did back then, I would be a military doctor by now treating soldiers and other casualties at the war front, and my way of making this real is by attending a military school and passing out with flying colors but the first reality dawned on me when my Waec result came out and I failed mathematics.

As human, our mind changes along with the situation we are facing, the moment I saw my Waec result, I decided to take a rest for 1 year while my friends did G.c.e and Neco and used that to enter school, that rest I took from studies cost me a lot.

I got a job during the time I stopped pursuing education which further made me forget about schooling, the first one was a factory job which I did for 6 months before I decided to do one that is less tedious and required brain instead of physical task, so I became a teacher.

I loved teaching as a profession and I have a passion for it which made me do it for 8 years, when we have passion for a certain thing, we tend to spend more time doing it and that is what teaching is for me, I love teaching my pupils and it is a source of joy for me when the parent praise me for a job well done which further inspires me to want to do better for my pupils.

The only part I hate about the teaching job is when the student finishes my class and have to move to another, the bond I have created with them always makes me miss them for the first few weeks but the new set makes me forget them when I start getting to know them too and that way I was able to get rid of the teacher-student feelings I have for the old set.

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I never realized that I was good at teaching even though the signs were always there, back in secondary school days, the other students would prefer me to explain some topics to them when there were still 5 other students better than me in the class, it was later I finally get to understand, it was because I love to break things down to the simplest form for others to grab it easily.

Taking it as a job led to my self-discovery that I was born to be a teacher, Unfortunately, I had to quit the job because aside from the honor it brings, my impact on the student life, My own personal life was stagnant, and not moving.

The pay was small and it couldn't take care of my needs, I had to take several home lessons to be able to earn more and that consumed all my time including weekends, for how long was I going to keep doing that, so I had to do something about it, I was helping others build their future while I remain stagnant in life, that is not how it should be and I realized the best thing to do was to quit!.

If teaching was a job that pays well, which could take care of me and my family, I would gladly take it as a job for life because I love teaching!

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