About Me
Hello!
My name is Jackie and I was born and raised in Las Vegas, Nevada. Ever since I was little I have always had the idea of becoming a teacher. When I was in high school my idea of going to college completely faded away. After graduation I began to work an average job and had the idea that college just wasn't for me. I wasn't very sure what I wanted to be in life but I quickly began to realize I was going to go nowhere with my restaurant job. I would look at the people who worked the same jobs for decades and to me they seemed unhappy. I told myself I would never allow myself to work a dead end job for the rest of my life, I wanted to successful and more importantly happy. Eventually my boyfriend gave me the push I needed. He told me just try to take one or two classes my first semester and see how I would like it, luckily for me at the time he was working in the registration office at CSN and was able to make my registration process extremely smooth. I decided to take two classes my first semester since many people told me not to "overwhelm" myself with four or five classes. Communications 101 and English 101 were the classes I took my first semester. Even though many people told me Communications was a "scary" class, I wanted to challenge myself and man oh man how I fell in love; I was hooked after my first semester. That feeling of being educated and knowing you are pursuing a dream career instead of just working a dead end job your whole life; there is nothing else that could compare. After that semester I took four classes and after that semester I took five!
However, this past semester I began to doubt my career choice, I was thinking of changing my major and began to lose touch of school. I thought to myself is it really worth it? Nevada is one of the lowest in education and teachers here earn the lowest of salaries, maybe I should just become a nurse and earn big bucks, maybe than I would happy in life? It wasn't until I ran into my old high school teacher at my job a few weeks ago. He was standing waiting for someone and I had recognized his face, I decided to go up to him and ask if he had taught at Sunrise Mountain high school and he said yes he was a co-ed teacher there. I gave him my name he remembered me right away, I was filled with instant joy. We began an amazing conversation and he introduced me to his wife who was also in the education field. He told me his daughter had just started teaching at Las Vegas high school. We exchanged numbers and they both told me how proud they were to see I was pursuing a teaching career, they assured me I had a huge support group and if I ever needed anything to just give them a call.
I never told them I was thinking about switching my major, because in that very moment I felt all doubt was put aside and I was in the right career path. I've let others opinions influence my college career at times, but I've realized many people pursue certain careers in order to be guaranteed big money, but not me. I want to love my job, I want to wake up and feel excited knowing I will be in a room with kids who look up to me, confide in me, trust me, love me, enjoy me, respect me, and most of all benefit and succeed from me.
So, here I am now 21 years old pursing my career in Secondary Education, I am still a little conflicted between elementary and secondary. For now a high school English teacher feels like my calling. I hope to be the first in my family to become a college graduate soon. I am taking summer classes to make up for the lost time in my first semester but also to get closer to my dream in the classroom. Three years ago all I was thinking about was graduating high school, marrying my middle school sweetheart, and starting a family, college was never in my thoughts. Now all I am focused on is school, my boyfriend, my family, and my happiness. The start of a new semester means I am not only one step closer to my dreams, but most importantly one step closer to my classroom with my lovely kids.
My name is Jackie and I was born and raised in Las Vegas, Nevada. Ever since I was little I have always had the idea of becoming a teacher. When I was in high school my idea of going to college completely faded away. After graduation I began to work an average job and had the idea that college just wasn't for me. I wasn't very sure what I wanted to be in life but I quickly began to realize I was going to go nowhere with my restaurant job. I would look at the people who worked the same jobs for decades and to me they seemed unhappy. I told myself I would never allow myself to work a dead end job for the rest of my life, I wanted to successful and more importantly happy. Eventually my boyfriend gave me the push I needed. He told me just try to take one or two classes my first semester and see how I would like it, luckily for me at the time he was working in the registration office at CSN and was able to make my registration process extremely smooth. I decided to take two classes my first semester since many people told me not to "overwhelm" myself with four or five classes. Communications 101 and English 101 were the classes I took my first semester. Even though many people told me Communications was a "scary" class, I wanted to challenge myself and man oh man how I fell in love; I was hooked after my first semester. That feeling of being educated and knowing you are pursuing a dream career instead of just working a dead end job your whole life; there is nothing else that could compare. After that semester I took four classes and after that semester I took five!
However, this past semester I began to doubt my career choice, I was thinking of changing my major and began to lose touch of school. I thought to myself is it really worth it? Nevada is one of the lowest in education and teachers here earn the lowest of salaries, maybe I should just become a nurse and earn big bucks, maybe than I would happy in life? It wasn't until I ran into my old high school teacher at my job a few weeks ago. He was standing waiting for someone and I had recognized his face, I decided to go up to him and ask if he had taught at Sunrise Mountain high school and he said yes he was a co-ed teacher there. I gave him my name he remembered me right away, I was filled with instant joy. We began an amazing conversation and he introduced me to his wife who was also in the education field. He told me his daughter had just started teaching at Las Vegas high school. We exchanged numbers and they both told me how proud they were to see I was pursuing a teaching career, they assured me I had a huge support group and if I ever needed anything to just give them a call.
I never told them I was thinking about switching my major, because in that very moment I felt all doubt was put aside and I was in the right career path. I've let others opinions influence my college career at times, but I've realized many people pursue certain careers in order to be guaranteed big money, but not me. I want to love my job, I want to wake up and feel excited knowing I will be in a room with kids who look up to me, confide in me, trust me, love me, enjoy me, respect me, and most of all benefit and succeed from me.
So, here I am now 21 years old pursing my career in Secondary Education, I am still a little conflicted between elementary and secondary. For now a high school English teacher feels like my calling. I hope to be the first in my family to become a college graduate soon. I am taking summer classes to make up for the lost time in my first semester but also to get closer to my dream in the classroom. Three years ago all I was thinking about was graduating high school, marrying my middle school sweetheart, and starting a family, college was never in my thoughts. Now all I am focused on is school, my boyfriend, my family, and my happiness. The start of a new semester means I am not only one step closer to my dreams, but most importantly one step closer to my classroom with my lovely kids.