Attended 'Teaching as a Career' seminar yesterday and.... i still feel the same way i did before the seminar. My passion for teaching is zero. Well, maybe, i can self delude myself for a couple of months that i am passionate enough to inspire young minds. Perhaps, if i chant 'i love to teach' like a mantra, i could eventually and collectively succumb enough passion to fervently teach (and hopefully teach the correct things. heh) But for how long?

Mum, dad and even wan and gazillion of my non-teacher friends (pay attention: non-teacher) have been prodding me to teach. As much as i want to, i know i can't. but i have yet to try though.

A good friend of mine remarked once that she could never, ever imagine me standing infront of a classroom and teach. She said i had the patience of a flea. Unfortunately, i tink she's right. A cousin of mine resigned from her $3K a month teaching post after 6 years of being a teacher. Even she had advised me not to delve into a career as such if i want my sanity intact after a year. And it was with no surprise that i got the same responses from my teaching friends.

Ironically, my aforementioned cousin's husband quit his lucrative engineering post and began to teach fulltime. And he's still teaching, even at the time of writing. And guess what? He's enjoying his fulfilling career switch.

Yeah, call me shallow but i am only considering of pursuing this path for one reason: stability. Me, teaching? I'll be like cikgu bedah. Nevertheless, im still weighing it carefully.

Towards the end of the seminar when the floor was opened for a Q&A, one middle aged lady went up to the erected microphone, posing a question. Or was it more like throwing fireballs?


Lady: Two years ago, i went for the interview at MOE for a teachers post. I was rejected. Then i proceeded to London's Institute of Education, applied for a teaching post and was successful.

Panel of MOE officials: Ok...

Lady: *in a loud, unhappy voice* Now i demand an explanation why i was rejected back then!!
*crowd makes a sound. More like a mixture of snickering and hooting laughter at the irrelevancy of the question*

Panel of MOE officials: err.. ummm.. we can't answer that...


The things that go through people's twisted minds sometimes... Ok, i gotta go and try to do something useful for the sake of humankind. Toodlez!