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I got a response to the previous thread that got me thinking. This is a copy / paste from my response to his comment. (He responded privately so I will honor that by keeping his end private.)
>>>>>>>>HERE WE GO
20 years ago, I figured I would be teaching in some high school somewhere directing school plays and probably doing summer mission trips with some youth group.
I got to college, decided I didn't want to teach. (in a conventional classroom) I accepted a promotion that all but made continuing school impossible at the time. (Internet courses were just in the beginning stages.) Took another promotion, got married, adopted one kid and had another. Quit a job, took one for FAR less money so I could be with my kids more. Took another job that moved me back to Atlanta. I still make less than I did 12 years ago, but I am home more with the kids.
All are choices I made. All had consequences. Some were good choices, some were bad ones. But I know God is in control.
I do teach Sunday school in a rotation with a few other since I have to work some Sundays. I train new employees which is teaching. I am in management, but they send be home at 40 hours.
I read something the other day on a bracelet that made me stop and think.
"Dreams become reality one choice at a time."
That is true, but you have to make the right choices.
Our choices are influenced by those around us as well. In highschool liked some classes and disliked most. My first math class gave a lot of home work in the 8th grade. I remember being at my grandmothers house trying to work on it. That was when I decided high school would be an exercise of survival, doing the least, unless I liked the class. If I had a bit more supervision from my parents I might have pushed harder.
ReplyDeleteCollege, first year, was extremely difficult and my grades reflected that. However I studied more than double what any one else was doing.
So what is my point in this ramble. As a father now I look to provide the parameters by which my children can excel as well as see the fruit of the labor that they have worked for. They do not need to be hammered yet they will need to be questioned and pushed at times.
All valid points. I was of course a poor student. Partly because of learning differences, but also partly from laziness.
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