As I'm switching careers this week I've had to say g'bye to loads of students and classes and am pretty surprised at how gutted I am.
I know I'm making the right decision, I've been a teacher long enough and teaching adults was no way as rewarding as teaching kids but I guess I'm still going to miss my students.
I just broke the news and a 65 year old dude from Vietnam looked like he was gonna cry, he just hugged me, aww.
Things I'll miss:
cursive writing on the whiteboards
cake day (every thursday)
making my students do pressups when they forget to do their homework
locking the door on late students and getting them to sing a song (in english) to come in
Things I'm lookin fwd to:
wearing trainers all day
wearing sports clothes
being able to do classes to music
having time to sleep
I wish I could do both jobs but working so much has been taking its toll (I now have three nipples) and am looking forward to a fresh new start.
I had a job at WHSmiths for three years working part time as student, At times I hated it, and tbh I was glad to leave at the end as all the people I liked had already left, the managers were getting on my nerves. But sometimes even now I feel nostalgic for it, I guess it was just nice to interact with so many different customers, even the oddballs. Used to get a lot of useless people who didnt know what they wanted, and was nice to be able to solve their little problem for them and get them the right book,
I'm switching jobs in a few weeks and am shitting myself!
I am staying within the same company and discipline, however I am going from being a commissioning engineer who is based on the project sites to being a design engineer based in an office in Germany. There are many plus and negative points but I am pretty sure the transition from working mad hours (anything upto 100hrs a week) to normal office hours of 35 will be a huge shock to the system. No more travelling/ working in different countries, no more doing exactly as I please without anybody looking over my shoulder. On sites there is always places to hide, during quiet periods it is well acceptable to surf the net and do whatever pleases you. However I can't see that happening in an open plan office.
mmmmm, and why am I changing?? thats something I am still asking myself. The chica part of my life is the driving force I suppose.
I am well practised in the art of saying goodbye at work, having now worked in seven different stores in nine years.
When I left the first place that I work - my first job - I admit to having a tear in my eye the last time I left the building for work: to leave the people who I had sortof grown up with was a massive wrench. However, you move on...
Now, I am about to embark on my life changing step in to the unknown, and I have been looking back on times gone by with affection: mainly to the laughs that I had when I was a trainee, especially now that I work with one of the girls I worked with in Newcastle, and we have three grad trainees, so it is all coming back to me. Overall, I am looking forward to the future with excitement and optimism - the memories will always be there, and the people who you worked with and were friends with will still be around :)
I guess Kid's was the most extreme, leaving home to travelling, and then leaving China after all those years to come home. Leaving a job is an easy option after that.
I can remember moving from Scotland to Kent, and then from there moving over to South Wales. I still keep in touch with those friends that I want to - very infrequently, but when we get together we have a great laugh and it seems line only yesterday.
