What I want to be when I grow up.

When I started the process to go back to school and complete my degree, I did so for two reasons. The first was to follow the counsel of the church leadership to get as much education as I can and the other was because I like to learn.

The dilemma came when I nearly made myself crazy as to how I would do it with a crazy full blown busy life and no clear direction for a degree choice. (I didn't know what I wanted to be when I grew up.) I finally had the awesome opportunity for an online degree to be obtained through the University of Phoenix. This has been an awesome experience and is rapidly getting me caught up to the goal of more education. I started just under a year ago in late January of 2007 and will be complete on schedule in late August. So now is the time to think about a bachelor's degree. hmm? the wheels now turning in my head... The business degree I am working on is nice and basic and many of the classes get a lot of the basics out of the way. This is good, because it is so versatile, I figured I could apply it in a multitude of ways.

In one of my newest classes. Human Resources Management, I was working on an assignment where I needed to research and create a comprehensive job description for a High School Librarian. I had once thought about being a librarian and was a student "helper" for credit in junior high in my library. I enjoyed the experience, but got lost in teenage translation... which led me to I don't know what I want to do.
The assignment got me to thinking, my mother has expressed an interest in me being a teacher like her. (She teaches elementary ed.) I don't mind teaching but because I have been around that environment in a volunteer capacity as well as relationship wise for quite some time. I feel like some of the negatives could turn me off, that and I am not very good at math. (as represented by my recent math grades in college... they reduced my 3.7 GPA to almost a 2.9! yuck!) This lack of confidence that I would be adequate enough to each mathematics as kept me far from that track.
So back to the research. As I researched I happened upon certain requirements that made me think a little outside of the box. I then took that curiosity and started searching... for a school that could give me a Family and Life degree with emphasis on consumer economics. Yep that's right HOME ECONOMICS. What a natural place for me. I loved my home economics class and never hated a day.
I listen to constant complaining by my co-workers and mother how "if only these people were taught the basics to survive, behave in human/ family relationships, teach their kids to or even themselves what they need to grow up."
I have often thought I could develop a community education class to teach those things.
I have many who now back me up and tell me I'd be a great teacher, that the subject fits... since my kids are well adjusted and if need be can somewhat self sustain themselves, problem solve with conflict resolution, show respect, and make goals. One day, my kids will survive better than a large portion of the population.
I take this as a compliment and then feel severely inadequate being on such a pedestal. I thank my mother, my mother-in-law, my thirst for knowledge, and the principles taught by the church for my humble success.
So as I explore the schools I will have to transfer to, and likely uproot my family for; as I weigh the positives and the negatives, the long-term benefits and the short-term inconveniences for this selfish and selfless path I pray, hope, plead, and ponder this choice with the faith to receive an answer followed by the steps of this transition falling into place.