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Free topic related to the career. A reflection on any aspect of it.
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Changing Lives and Caring Too Much

Teaching is a profession where you really can make a difference in a child’s life, oftentimes profoundly. You are with children for a good part of the day, longer than their parents are, in most cases. Young children, especially, will look at you as a role model and repeat what you say and do. You often may help a teen struggling to figure out what career path to take. You could also be lucky enough to become the teacher everyone remembers as the one who cared enough to make a difference.

However, making a difference in children's lives takes tremendous dedication and hard work. Teaching can be an exhausting job; physically, mentally and emotionally. You are with other people's children longer than you are with your own family. It is hard not to take the needs of the children in your class home with you, and the emotions that go along with that. Remember the teacher, or teachers, who never smiled, always seemed unhappy and were only pleased with the kids who got top marks? It could be he chose the wrong profession, but it could also be that he/she once had a passion for teaching and just burned out from caring too much.