And the career counsellor says...

"Why aren't you doing Primary Teaching??"

So, that's what I'm doing!! I had a week temping last week, and while doing that, ran around organising my enrolment in a Graduate Diploma of Education (Primary)! (Busy week!) I missed the first week, which was kinda O-week, and a unit on 'Tribe TLC', but I'll catch up on that in my own time - 'tis interesting stuff, and you will read about it!

I'm back at my old uni - the amazing, wonderful University of Ballarat (no sarcasm there, honest!) for this year, and next year I'll hopefully be employed somewhere as a teacher! Scary stuff! Although it is just one year, it isn't govt funded, so it costs as much as a normal 3 yr degree - ouch! But I'll be back out in the working world again soon, earning it all back!

I know it seems rash and crazy, especially for those of you who heard a week ago that I was enrolled in a childcare course, planning to go to Germany as a nanny next year, but it really feels right. Everything else has been something to do while I figure out what to do next, but this actually seems like a career choice to me. The psychologist was a great one (his fees tell you that!), and after all the test analysis and talking to me, he felt quite clearly it was the thing to do. It was also what I wanted to do as a kid, and, funnily enough, if I was less intelligent, I would have gotten here years ago, b/c it was actually one of my uni choices, just after commerce and accounting, and unfortunately I was smart enough to get into that so I didn't do the teaching thing. But maybe its for the best - I don't know that I had the confidence to survive rounds back when I was 17.

Anyway, it is a 1.25 load, with a day a week in schools all year, plus a four-wk block at the end of each semester, so I'll keep nice and busy. And altho I'm nervous and apprehensive, I'm really excited - I think it'll be a great, challenging, inspiring course!