What alternative career paths have you considered or are interested in?

These days, I am a retired Educator his career and education span from 1968 until January 2012. I felt various roles in various places during those years and most thoroughly appreciated my career.

I gave up entitlement to a family farm to become a teacher and a school principal in time.

I have always been glad for the opportunity that was provided for me to become an educator.

(These days however I would caution people to consider becoming teachers carefully. They need to be aware of the fact that the attitudes of my students parents and community to teachers have changed. They need to know that no longer educators respected as they once were. They need to know that schools and teachers there in frequently

Are dumped on by the government and society to take on the bringing up roles of children that should be long to parents. They also need to know that there is a danger in teaching that has both physical and mental impacts upon educators.)

There were two alternative careers I could have followed.

My mother desperately wanted me to become a minister of religion and I did a lot of youth work with our church in my later adolescent years and up until about the age of 21. However, my heart would not have been in ministry because I doubt very much that I could have lived the life demanded by the church and I could hardly turn around and exhort others to goodness if I wasn’t examining that myself. To be a minister would have been to be a hypocrite.

The second career I would have chosen would have been full-time journalism. I’ve always fancied writing and a lot of that over the years some of that for pecuniary reward as an extension of salary and most of it without monetary reward at all.

I’ve written for Newspapers, including feature articles in regular columns. on and off that goes back to the early 1970s and has continued up until the present day.

My focus in journalistic terms was always on issues and being a part-time contributor to Newspapers and magazines most certainly helped my written literacy skills.

Those career options aside(And in many respects, I did do a hell of a lot within the journalistic field,) I have been more than satisfied with the career path I followed.

But again I caution those considering teaching, to tread cautiously and to analyse carefully before full commitment to this profession.