Thursday, March 19, 2009

Example #6

Me: "So good news, I was talking to my friend at work and rumor is they're keeping all the specialty teachers next year, meaning me. He said we'll know for sure early April."
Her: "Well I thought you don't like teaching."
Me: "It's not that I don't like it, I just don't think it's what I want to do forever."
Her: "Well if you don't get out now, you never will."
Me: "I'm 22, I've worked there for 4 months, I think I have time."
Her: "You don't. There's no time. You need a career. Next thing you know, you're going to be 40 years old, still teaching in the slums of Brooklyn, a single mom with three half-black children and another one on the way. There's your future. Have fun."

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