Little did they know that my degree was actually in a very specific field:  Technology in Education, or, how to use computers and technology in the classroom. Nobody knew that I had already made the rounds of various schools, offering my expertise in this area, and was told by principal after principal that no school had a budget for integrating computers into the curriculum. “Oh, but it says here that you majored in psychology, so can you teach English?” was the usual reply. It took three or four of these interviews before I learned to keep the baffled look off my face, and three or four more interviews before I decided that I would become a journalist instead.

To be honest, I didn’t like the idea of trampolining into the profession by default; the teachers I met in graduate school, both men and women of the highest caliber who were training for degrees in various fields relating to education, including Administration, Planning and Social Policy, Curriculum Studies, or who were obtaining teacher’s certification, struck me as so dedicated to their profession that I felt it would be disrespectful to go into teaching without being absolutely sure of my own purpose in or dedication to the field. So I embarked upon my career as a journalist and writer, but I kept in touch with the field of education in a very roundabout way, taking the opportunity to do writing on contract for various educational organizations in the country.

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