I'm pretty sure I have the job I wanted when I was studying at
university. I always wanted to teach in a university, because I thought (and
still do) that I needed something that was a challenge for me. There are
certain people who like to live in a comfortable zone, I'm not that kind of
person. I don't mean I like to live in danger or stressed all the time, what I
mean is that to teach in a university, you have to keep improving your methods
of teaching, increasing your vocabulary, finding better ways to explain your
students some grammar point and plenty of other things that help you work to
become a better professional. Besides I would really die of boredom if I had to
stay in an office all the time. Moreover, considering my little bit of autistic
nature, the best thing I can do is to force myself to interact with people and
I couldn't imagine a better way than sharing my knowledge with others. Another
factor people consider when choosing a profession is the salary, well, it is
clear that money is not what made me choose this profession (hahaha). Teachers
are not well paid in Chile, and I guess neither are they, in most countries of
this world. There is one thing though, I can only have by teaching. When you
teach, you have the opportunity to meet people who will probably discover the
cure for terrible diseases, improve the lives of people in this country or
maybe this world, write the most wonderful piece of music in history, or do any
other thing which will make this world a better world. That fact, just makes me
incredibly happy, because that is what I see in my students' eyes every time I
teach them something.
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