When you're working towards that college degree, working towards one day becoming a teacher, you don't necessarily think about or realize all the lunches you won't be able to sit down and enjoy, or all the evenings you won't spend out with your friends because you're writing or grading tests, or all the times you'll have your every error pointed out to you because you work with preteens every day. You don't consider the exhaustion that comes with parent/teacher conferences and Christmas and spring musicals. You don't think about your Friday nights being spent wrapping up everything from the past week, or about spending Sunday afternoons organizing your teaching life for the next week.
Do you know what else you don't realize when you're preparing for that one-day teaching career? You don't realize that your biggest teaching moments won't happen in the middle of math class, they'll happen when real life seeps into your classroom through everyday life struggles. You don't realize that the quiet-kid-free lunches you give up and spend with your students will mean the world to them. You also don't realize that there is nothing like the satisfaction of reaching the end of the day completely and utterly in love with the career you have immersed yourself in.
When you wake up every day loving what you do, well, that's something money can't buy. Did you consider that?
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