Hola Readers,
During our down times at the Writing Center, Colleague N and I would sometimes discuss professionalism and our careers.
We both "fell" into our jobs. I avoided teaching ever since I dropped my education major at Seton Hill University, but at Utah State University I realized I can teach when I accepted the graduate instructorship to help finance my MAs education. Colleague N was actually interested in teaching, but became more interested in writing, so her MAs degree focused on writing.
We chuckled at how I was re-entering the teaching profession as she was leaving it ( for now ). Even though we're both neophytes in our profession, we talked about our fears of being pigeon-holed ( discussing the age-old question: "How does one get experience when one can't get hired?" ).
Most of my experience came from teaching and tutoring, but I have the skills to write articles for PR and newspaper publications. Colleague N's experience mostly stemmed from PR and newspaper publications, and her technical writing background; nonetheless she can still teach. Working at a Writing Center seemed to be a good compromise fulfilling most of our interest.
Great thing all 3 of us are highly motivated individuals. In addition to our Writing Center duties, we're constantly brainstorming different projects to do to keep challenging ourselves and to keep growing. And of course, we're still holding on to our dreams of making it and being published writers as well!
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