To Teach or Not To Teach?

Sometimes I question if I chose the right major.

Kinda a dumb time to begin questioning it, I know.

I have my last semester of classes this fall, then I student teach this spring.

Bad timing.

But seriously, I question it...

...a lot lately.

I {love} working with people.

I love helping others.

Which is why I chose to be a teacher.

Thought it'd be perfect.

I didn't want to do elementary education.

I {adore} kids.

But I didn't think I wanted to be around 30 kids all day every day for the rest of my life.

So I chose secondary education.

6th through 12th grade should be more manageable, right?

But I'm an incredibly passionate person.

That age group isn't.

Is it gonna tire me? Trying to get them excited?

Maybe I shoulda done something with younger kids?
Everyone tells me how great I am with kids...

Hm.

And if my passion is helping others, wouldn't I be better suited for counseling or something?

That was my favorite part about being an RA and an HM:

helping residents (usually young women) with their struggles.

I loved helping someone feel better about themselves, or to see the silver lining in their stormcloud, or teaching them to handle stress and school better.

Sometimes I think I would have been a great counselor.

And it would have given me more opportunities to help people in a different way than teaching does.

Sometimes I think it would have been fun to be a marriage counselor, specifically.

Then, there's animals.

Animals are probably one of the things I am most passionate about in life.

I LOVE animals.

All growing up I thought for sure I was going to be a zoologist.

Or a marine biologist.

Or a wildlife biologist.
I knew I was going to work with animals.

My junior year of high school we had to rank in value different aspects of possible jobs in our future, to find what we were interested in.

I rated "working with animals" as my number one most important thing.

Then my senior year, for some reason, I decided on teaching.

I am super excited to teach.

Sometimes, I just wonder if I'd be better at something else.

Sometimes, I wonder if I made the right decision.