I love my job

Really, I love my job.  I am so thankful to have a job that I like to get up in the morning for.  I know that for most, my job would be a challenge to love, but for me it's easy.  I have had a BAD job (maybe another blog, if I'm brave enough), so it makes me appreciate what I have even more.  I work in an alternative school with grades 9-12+.  The students are awesome.  You know, I love learning, but having a strength in one specific thing (math, science, history) is not something that I am really familiar with.  I have always been a good reader and writer ( I do love to do both), but more of the social science stuff (psychology, sociology) is what I'm good in.  I started out as a Psych. major, then got pregnant and knew that at least 6 more years of school just was NOT going to happen, moved to Kinesiology and figured out that that was a dead-end (for me anyway), then took a 12 year break.  I started a job at the alternative school about 6 years ago, and here I am.  Funny the path life takes you on.  I kind of feel like I've gone full circle.  Since I was in 7th grade, I knew that I wanted to work with at-risk kids.  My husband even used to be one!!!  Now, that's exactly what I'm doing.  Not all of my students are at-risk, but most are.  I love them;  I think of them as "my kids".  I think that's why I love alt.ed.  My classes are small, the kids feel comfortable asking questions and they are very open.  Some of the stories I hear teachers telling of traditional classes and students, make me cringe.  I would not survive and it's no wonder these kids didn't either.  They come to us because they were not successful, for whatever reason.  Honestly, I think it's because the classes are too big and they aren't able to form a relationship with the teacher.  That's where I come in.  My specialty is not math, science, or history, it's forming relationships.  I get to do that every day and I love it.