One of the fun parts of my job is that I get to teach academic success sessions at freshman orientation. I did one earlier today and now I’m EXHAUSTED! I swear, public speaking should be a sport or something. I have a higher level of respect for all teachers now; well the good ones anyway
Matt said it in one of his sermons but the same holds true for myself. I’ve been blessed with what teachers call “a voice that carries”. It’s really comical that I ended up majoring in what I did and doing what I do considering I’m such an introvert AND how much I hated any kind of public speaking. I was more of the “witty comment” kid in school – much of what I said was under my breath, or so I though.
So, today was my third “class” to teach this summer and now I’m having thoughts about teaching. I think I’d like to be a speech professor. *sigh* that would involve MORE school on TOP of the degree I won’t start until the fall, but I could technically have my Ph.D by the time I’m in my early 30′s which would give me DECADES of time to teach. I never wanted to teach before – in fact I really didn’t want to. But when I look some of my life goals – to motivate, inspire and positively affect the lives of the people I have influence over, teaching would certainly fit that. Next week I’ll want to be an auto-mechanic so we’ll see how all of this plays out. In case you were wondering I’m looking at the Ph.D program in Speech Comm at Texas A&M. I always wanted to be an Aggie