He asked me into his office. He had heard that I was leaving the company. Since we had worked together for years and had a good relationship he wanted to talk. <\/p>\n
I suspect that he really wanted to try to convince me to stay. But when you leave a tech job behind for teaching, everyone knows there’s nothing the company can counter with. There is not a single thing they can offer. Everyone knows this. He certainly did. But deep down, I think he wanted to try.<\/p>\n
“Why now?” he asked.<\/p>\n
I was silent for a moment. You can ask that question of any decision you make. Why new shoes now? Why a haircut now? Why remodel the kitchen now? I wasn’t sure how to answer him.<\/p>\n
“Why not two years from now?”<\/p>\n
Why now and not later?<\/em> The stuff off procrastination. I need to steer away from that line of thinking. In some sense I had already been dallying too long.<\/p>\n There was that evening in Michigan many years ago when my cousin said, “We need to figure out how to get you into teaching.” <\/p>\n There was that application I almost-submitted to the very alternative certification program in which I am now enrolled — an almost-application, because the economy was in deep recession, and the local school district laid off 300 teachers.<\/p>\n Why now and not later?<\/em> I told him I didn’t know how to answer that, but I do. <\/p>\n Now,<\/em> because itis already later. Now,<\/em> because I don’t want to look back on my life years hence and ask myself, “Why didn’t I ever do that?”<\/p>\n So I’m doing it, and I’m doing it now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" He asked me into his office. He had heard that I was leaving the company. Since we had worked together for years and had a good relationship he wanted to talk. I suspect that he really wanted to try to convince me to stay. But when you leave a tech job behind for teaching, everyone […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5048"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5048"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5052,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5048\/revisions\/5052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}