On Revising (Part 1)
At this moment, I'm a special education teacher. It's something that I've really enjoyed doing, a new step in my education career. It may be the field that I end up teaching in for the rest of my professional life.
However, I got started as a language arts teacher, at the secondary level. I also taught composition at the college level. There was one, bright, shining moment where I had fantasies of working as a full-time college professor, spending my days grading papers at the local coffee shop while tooling around on a new writing project. However, opportunities for full-time work, even at the community college level, were rare or non-existent, and the economics of adjunct college teaching make it the educational career equivalent of entry-level fast food work.
I do still teach writing - not usually full-time, but in short bursts to those kids I have writing goals with, and the occasional college class, although the last time I did that was a year and a …
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