O Captain! My Captain!

This post is long overdue. I am sorry. I should have written something between today and last time that I posted. Life has a way of getting busy quickly. Life also has a way of changing dramatically and at the least expected times.

My life has changed.

Many of you know that I pursued my undergraduate degree in History Education. I thought it a noble pursuit to be a teacher, especially in the discipline of History. Like everyone else, I struggled, and bled, and fought my way through college to obtain a degree. Then I graduated and found the job prospects to be sparse. It turns out that most history teachers are also coaches. I really should have known that (insert clown horn noise here). Please understand that I don’t bear any real grudge towards high school sports. However, I think that high school sports are wildly over funded, serve a tiny fraction of the students at a school; all in the name of a vocation that one in a million kids will be able to do professionally. Most importantly, I don’t think that coaches, in general, make good history teachers. History is supremely important! In my view, the main purpose of history is to teach critical thought. Incidentally, that is the main job of all of the soft sciences.

I have digressed.....badly.

So, there I was; fresh from the university and nowhere to go. It was depressing. Really, really, really, depressing. I soon picked up work in the automotive field and eventually working for a city doing an obscure, ill respected form of law enforcement known as code enforcement. And I was happy as bacteria in a petri dish. I really was.

Then my life changed. A job opened up at the local high school, indeed the same high school where I student taught a year ago. I was encouraged to apply, and I did, and I got the job. It was quick and unexpected. In fact, really unexpected. I am so happy and also very sad all at the same time because, for the first time ever, I am leaving a job that I love.

I hinted at this my last post. Now it is official. My time as a code enforcement officer is soon up. Now I shall have my shot at the noble profession of teaching. It will be a "good practical sort of immortality" as John Muir so eloquently stated. I shall be teaching history and science. Wish me well, and I welcome any and all ideas!