I Got Fired, yep Options

[Jen]

So, those of you who know me on here know that I am in school to become a math teacher. I'm in my junior year, and things were going great. I got a job that gave me a jump start on my career, and things were fabulous. This job was as a math tutor, which is definitely in my field. After a few months of working there, I got fired. I GOT FIRED. I was told that I should reconsider my career choice, and that I'm apparently not that great in math. He said that I wasn't very helpful with the older kids (high schoolers), and it's best I know now than later.

This killed me.

What were As in all of my math classes soon turned into Ds and Fs.

I'm unmotivated, and I feel like an absolute idiot.

It's like, his words subconciously made me believe that I really do suck in math, and that I really do have no idea what I'm doing. I'm letting it effect me THAT much. It's like, he ruined my dreams.

I've tried not thinking like that, but nothing has worked.

I just want to drop out of school because I feel so worthless.

What's a girl to do? Change my major back to primary education? I don't know. I'm utterly lost.

[Culpable04]

This is what I've decided. I'm taking a semester or two off. I'm going to start substitute teaching, and trying to get my inspiration back. I need a break, and I need my inspiration back. It's just so depressing, how I let things subconciously effect me. I hate it.

Jen, I don't recommend you to take semesters off, that you were not so hlepful to those kids, doesn't mean you s*ck on math, you may be great on math but have to work on your teaching techniques, we all agree that sometimes we get a professor that we don't get to fully understand; that doesn't mean he doesn't know the subject, is just that he's using the wrong examples or not simplifying the theory enough for us as students. Understanding / knowing math is way different than having to explain it to someone, you may not understand with the same examples I would and such. try to talk to some of your professors at school or seat down and think about it with a cold mind. taking semesters off have led to very few good results.


good luck jen !