Categories: life, decisions, work
Date: 07 March 2009 22:44:52
To those who added their comments to my last post... obviously the way forward in my decision making is to bring it to the attention of my companions in wiblogging.
I'd not thought of music therapy, and it's certainly a good thought.
I'm currently involved in FE, in a small way, though in a slightly unusual capacity, and there is a chance to move into some of the teaching. A bit of me likes the idea, and another bit of me doesn't. I enjoy what I do already, and think if I'm to carry on working with that age range, that's the way forwards for me.... but, it opens up a different can of worms.
Once upon a time, in the days when I was trying to work out What I Wanted To Be When I Grew Up, and was the despair of many of those trying to give me advice, the kind of compromise consensus was I'd be a good primary school teacher, and went into the training thinking this was what life was going to be. Well, I was categorically awful, and life changed.... and changed, for life I thought this time,.... and is about to change again.
Bizarrely, however, I've continued to work in schools, on and off, in different support capacities. Recently, the question has been coming back at me again and again... "Why are you not a teacher?" I do think, however, I make a better classroom assistant or teaching assistant than class teacher.
I shall keep musing on the matter! I have various interviews lined up with Helpful People soon, so we shall see what comes of them.