be a teacher and a mentor

I do still intend to do a teaching qualification, but it won’t be for a few years.

I have some other goals which incorporate this one, and which are more short-term achievable.

So how do I get rid of this goal, do I call it “done”?
I am working as a teacher now, but not in the way I had originally meant. I’m a mentor in the sense that my friends tend to come to me with problems (mostly about dissatisfaction with life, work, school) and I think of creative suggestions / alternatives for them. Sometimes they follow my suggestions, sometimes they don’t, but I believe they feel better about their current situation knowing at least there are other options.

_{But I digress…}

Or do I “give up this goal”, since I am putting it on hold for the next year?

I can always readopt it later. I think I’ll give up for now.
Bye bye goal.

I feel certain that there’s SOMETHING out there which will be perfect for me, I just need to keep looking and keep my mind open to non-traditional possibilities.

I’d like to join the Big Sisters program when I go to Vancouver. It will give me more experience working with youth, and also be rewarding (I hope). It’ll also be somewhat social, and a reason to get out of the house – since I won’t know many people in the city I’m moving to.

For the record, I am hoping to work for one or two years in something education-related in Canada next year, THEN do the teachers’ ed. program.

I’m not ready to go back to fulltime study yet, and I’ll be able to save enough for the tuition this year, but will need a bit more savings to cover living expenses. I think the program is too intensive to be working while I study.

And if I’m spending that much MORE money on MORE education, I’d like to concentrate on it and really get my money’s worth out of it! (Yes, and I’m a perfectionist nerd).

I’ve been looking at education-related jobs. There’s not much I’ll be qualified to do, before I become a certified teacher.

I don’t need a new job until next year, so I’m just trying to brainstorm now while the pressure’s off. I fear that when I am faced with unemployment, I will cave and end up taking a stupid administrative job – which I know from experience will bore and dissatisfy me in the long run. Of course, being unemployed is also boring and dissatisfying…and far less profitable.

I’m reluctant to go back to Canada to work, if that’s all that’s in store for me. (Well, except that I want to be with my boyfriend, who’s there.)

Dilemma.

THis has been on my list for a while. I’ve considered going into teaching as a profession over the past couple years, and have been gaining some experience towards that end.

But in the past few days I’ve been wondering about this. I have done 6 years of post-secondary study already, and teacher’s college would be another year, full-time. With high tuition.

I’ve been living hand to mouth since university, trying to repay my massive loan a.s.a.p. I’m getting to the end of the loan, but now need to dedicate most of my income to saving up for teacher’s college, because there’s NO WAY I’m getting another loan within a year of paying off the last one.

However, I have no assets, except random education (which was interesting at the time, among other things it helped me discover what I DON’T want to do!). I’m 31 now, so I guess it’s time for the lazy grasshopper to embrace the inner ant.

Meaning, get myself a little more financially stable in the next couple years (I think I also need to focus on relationships more), while keeping teachers college for the end of a 3 year plan.

However the idea of mentoring in some way still interests me, so maybe I’ll get involved in some kind of volunteer work in that area once I get back to Canada next summer.