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That one time I almost quit my job.

I almost quit my dream job earlier this year. Let me explain. I have wanted to be a teacher my ENTIRE life. (well besides when I was 6 and was for sure going to become a famous singer and a short time around 9 when I considered being a dog trainer) But from 10 years old on there was no other career in sight. By the time I was 14 I had decided that I wanted to teach Kindergarten. I babysat more than any of my friends, benefiting from being one of the few teenagers in my neighborhood. I taught preschool in high school, job shadowed for a Kindergarten classroom for my senior project, took 3rd in the state at the FCCLA competition for early childhood education. While my friends worried about college majors and careers, I selected one of the best teaching programs in the state and only applied to that university. I never, ever second guessed my choice. Not once. Even when I took a break from school to serve my mission I always knew when I came back I would finish my degree and go teach