Of my community college teaching career.  I am taking a break from teaching to focus on my doctoral work and research for more possible articles.  I am torn about this.  It has been really fun to teach and I have really enjoyed it.  It has been hard and it has been trying and frustrating as well.  I’m not sad, as I knew that when I started working at the community that it really was just a way for me to get out of the house a little and then it became the way to pay for private school for Noah.  It has been my savior and also been the biggest time sucker in my life.  Teaching is really hard and time consuming.  It is sometimes full-filling but mostly it is a time-sucker.

What I’ll Miss:

• The students
• Intellectual development (of students)
• Sharing my passion for writing
• Helping students become better thinkers, writers and students
• Challenging thoughts
• Being able to say I’m a teacher

What I won’t Miss:

• Plagiarism
• Excuses for why assignments aren’t done
• Failing students
• Grading papers
• Creating assignments
• Having a 3rd job
• Being an adjunct and treated like on
• Feeling frustrated that I can’t fix the system

Good-bye community college students and colleagues.  It has been fun and I have learned so much.  But I am happy to be moving on to a full-time job (one job) and being able to work on what I want to work on in order to begin to make an even bigger difference.