"teacher me? teacher u?"

A speaker once said, if you’re only getting into the academe for the mere reason of money/finances, you’re heading the wrong track. Because teaching must come from within, you interact and share yourself with your students unconditionally.

As those words echoes in the labyrinths of my eardrum, it pricks me like an ant, guilty as charged!

An acquaintance once told me, “You should work in the academe; you’re very articulate and smart! You have a lot to share with the students. Swak ka for the job!” It was a great boost of ego indeed but why didn’t I took it by heart?!

Being a teacher/professor/instructor is a great challenge.

I strongly believe it takes a lot of courage, patience and heart in order to teach. I for one don’t have the heart yet. Perhaps that’s the reason why I turned down opportunities to work in the academe. “wala pa sa puso ko ang magturo.”

I don’t wanna teach for the mere reason of earning double or even triple digits per month. I don’t wanna teach for the reason of fame or social status. I wanna teach for the right reason and personally, the right reason is when I have learned and even found in the deepest of my heart that I like (not even love yet) to teach. As simple as that, I guess.


I believe that if I took the job now, it will just be a j-o-b not a vocation or a career. It’ll be another job that I will regret getting myself into because it’s not what I like doing or enjoy even. It’ll be another chained working legs and thorn heart. That’s what I felt when I almost accepted a teaching job in a university. I felt it really isn’t for me…

As I am battling a career dilemma now, I have yet to see what’s in it for me. Maybe this opportunity was given to test new waters, but I don’t feel like jumping in it, yet. Maybe soon or then again, maybe not… who knows?!?

Laters…