Do YOU Love What YOU Do?

Evening!

Not to want to miss too many posts in this category I thought that I would do today’s post as Leila is probably recovering at the moment and this is probably the last thing that she wants to think about.

I have worked since I was fourteen.

My very first job was working in the ice cream shop down the road from my house. When I say down the road, I mean the main street of Forster. I lived quite close to the main street and two beaches, as well as most other things. Small town.

While towards the end of working there, as I worked on and off at that shop until my twenties, I hated it. I disliked coming home with ice cream up my arms. Not to mention all the snacks I was having did nothing for my thighs and stomach!

But I always love going back there when I am home and visiting the owners. And maybe having a couple of ice creams!

All the while I was working there I did some babysitting too. I always loved being around children, and still do. I would never charge that much as realistically most of the time the children were in bed.

It wasn’t until I moved to Orange and started my Diploma that I actually started working a job in a field I would come to call my career path.

I worked casually at an ABC Learning Centre. I loved it there. The staff and children were fantastic. I loved getting up and going to work and missed a lot of TAFE sometimes because I was one of there casuals that they would call all the time. I discovered a lot about myself working there. My confidence grew.

Then I moved home and finished the course and I only stepped inside a centre when it was for my practicums. It was on one of my practicums that I was placed in a primary school, was meant to be an out of hours placement but in Forster there are not too many to choose from.

It was the teacher my little sister had in Kindergarten. He was just one of those teachers that really loved being there and had fun. I actually requested him because he had always said to me and my mum that if I ever wanted to go on his class, I could. So I did. I loved it.

He is the reason, in combination with one of my TAFE teachers that I went to university. He told me that I must become a teacher. That they need more teachers like me. I will admit that it was a little confronting at first to hear it but it was a huge boost to my ego.

And I did. I ended up at university the following year. I moved to Sydney for full-time work.

I was the room leader of a birth-fifteen months room. My confidence was still growing. Sure I knew what had to be done and how to do it. But I just wasn’t confident with the parents and showing assertiveness. Not to mention my assistant in the room was a pain in the arse and I ended up leaving within two months.

I stayed at uni. Not finding work besides casually nannying here and there. Then a friend needed a Diploma trained in their 3-5 year old room. I said yes, of course. I loved that position. I miss that position. I felt at ease in myself in that position. I was confident with parents. But that is also when I had the news that made me get dark and twisty for a lot of the end of last year.

Then I ended up picking up a job at the university to do with blogging! Surprise, surprise. I love to blog and one of the lecturers recalled that I had a children’s blog {Early Childhood Resources} and recommended me for the position!

Then I started nannying one of the cutest little boys, I may be biased because of the time I spent with him, but I completely assure you, he is gorgeous! But I had to stop the other week due to financial reasons and am extremely upset! Tomorrow I should be looking after him, but alas I am not.

And now, now I am nearing the completion of my degree and am about to get my casual number for teaching. Awfully excited as I already have a full four weeks straight after my internship booked in!

I never thought that I would find a career that would fit for me.

I remember in high school being dazed and confused about the whole situation.

Now, I cannot wait to start teaching!

And the future, well who knows what that holds, but I would love to direct and own my own long day care or preschool one day.

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Please keep your fingers crossed that Leila will be better soon xx