To be honest, I floated into teaching because it was the path of least resistance. My father, with whom i disagree on this issue, used to say that it was my brother who had the talent for being a businessman. I think that the networking and other peripheral things I did as a teacher (I am retired now.) refute my father's (may he rest in peace) opinion. I still like selling, though and what i have come to find out is that teaching IS selling. If you do not come to see that (after a while, perhaps) you may never really like teaching. It would be a shame to be in a profession that you did not like.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation established some essentials for successful schooling. They are rigor (Know your subject.) Relevance (be able to excite other people about it, that is selling) and relationship (being able to guide at least some students to a more satisfactory path through life than they might have found without you). You won't reach that third criterion with every student. However, the joy of teaching lies in the second and third criteria.
It might have been nice to have earned more money. It always seemed silly that teachers of some college subjects are better than others because of what is inaccurately called "supply and demand." Of course, this is not the case in K-12 work, but that too is underpaid. Still i had an enjoyable career and I am not completely penniless and destitute in retirement. thus, I can say that I chose well in going into teaching even if it was the path of least resistance.
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