What is one of the most surprising revelations you have discovered about yourself?
When I was old enough to go to college my mother tried to influence my decision to study teaching or nursing, telling me that in those professions I could find work close to home and would work for the state, where I could have a retirement when I was older. I appreciate that my mother thought about my future, but it turns out that retirement for a professional in this country is not what it was 30 years ago, so that should not be the reason for someone to study those careers.
Since I was not guided by what my mother recommended, I studied a university career to work in private companies, and I worked 6 years in three different companies, then I stopped for 9 years in which I dedicated myself to take care of my children, valuable years for me because I was raising my children, but as a person they consumed me and exhausted me, I wanted to go out to work, I felt that I was going to get old and they would not want to hire me again. But after analyzing a job offer I realized that it was going to be difficult for me to go back to my previous life and spend 8 to 12 hours in a company, now I had children that although they were not babies they were still small.
I kept calm and three months later I got another job offer, but this time totally different from what I was used to. In 2018 began the emigration of Venezuelans to neighboring countries in search of a better quality of life, one of those people was the 3rd grade teacher of my oldest son, so without a teacher that group of students was left adrift. I think the only mom who had the preparation and time to take charge was me, so I started as a substitute, it’s been 4 years and I’m still teaching.
I discovered that I like the job, I discovered that to be a teacher you have to have a noble heart that sees for the welfare of children, I did not know I had that quality and the sensitivity to care about the children of others. Although sometimes I get stressed because it is not easy to be in a classroom with 30 children, I know that at some point they will get a smile out of me 😀. I discovered that a teacher must have a vocation to be able to do what she does every day. It’s not because I consider myself more, but sometimes I feel that I have more vocation than other teachers who have been in this job for a long time, I like to explain and teach the children new things and also let them teach me.
Undoubtedly, discovering that I have a teaching vocation has been the greatest revelation of my life, destiny brought me here even though at first I denied this possibility.
