#4 Current Major and Career Goals

I am currently an English major with a concentration in creative writing. I want to write. Every day I find an excuse to write something. Right now my thing is to write letters to a friend going to school across the country. If I could just sit down and write every day and make money from that I would be a happy woman! I know that isn’t going to work out, so I want to be a teacher and put that passion into other people. I also love to read. To be able to spend the rest of my life discussing classic novels is something that I know I would love.

I plan to graduate in 2011 and take a year off. I’m going to minor in Russian and I might get a job in between Grad school and graduation that has to do with that minor before I really focus on the teaching. I would love to use my major and minor in my career as a teacher, and a way to do that is to teach English as a second language to Russian students. I love Russian and would love to have an excuse to speak it as often as possible, and to live in Russia. I don’t plan on being there for the rest of my life though, maybe just a year or two.

In 5 years? I’ll probably be in Russia (hopefully) or I’ll be a teacher in New England. I do want to settle down be secure in where I’m going to live out the rest of my life before I start a really serious relationship, so that will probably be the best time to settle all that. I just want to work and be happy and be near my family. That is what I want from life. I want to be near family and be doing something that makes me happy. I would like to travel a lot too, but I know that would probably not happen all that often on a teacher’s salary. I want to get as much of that done as possible before I really start teaching full time.

I know, I seem really certain in what I want to do. People tell me that my plan for life can be a little inflexible, but there is something about knowing what I want to do and how I’m going to accomplish it that makes me feel happy, and I don’t plan on changing anything in my plan any time soon. I really do think I’ll love being a teacher, and I think I would love to teach English as a second language to Russian students. I can’t wait to reach it!