So You Graduated Teacher's College...
I am talking about that silly stage of life between graduation and finding your career job.
You did it! You survived years of high school where you were asked more times than you can count "What are you doing after this?", "What are your plans for next year?", "You want to be a teacher? Isn't there like ZERO jobs right now?", "Are those baby boomers ever going to retire?" I, among you recent teacher graduates, have heard it all. Next, you survived getting your undergraduate degree! Instead of that being enough, we were still plagued with the same questions as above. This time, our future was becoming closer, the real world was looming in and the panicking, for some, ignited. It wasn't until I was done with my placements in teacher's college that I really began to worry about my next step. Since elementary school I seemed to have most of my next steps laid out for me. And here I was, a few graduations later without that next step. Of course, you would think that going into a specific field of study should have made my next step pretty obvious-- get the teaching job. However, for someone like me, an introvert that can fake being extroverted pretty well in professional settings, this task was a hard one.