congruence?

not that it really matters whether my job matches what i studied or anything, but i do get shit about it sometimes. a lot of people wonder why i'm teaching English if i have an environmental degree. i've always had the freaky feeling that, in my major, you either live a life of poverty handcuffed to a redwood or you become a pointy-headed academic who hides in a library all day. my route was going to be the pointy-headed one.

and it could be still. but what i got into, what really struck a chord with me, was what i learned about how environmental problems are just a product of greater social ills and the System. cut to Thursday night, at a class dinnner with my Toshiba students. they all told me how much they like my class and how much fun they have there. i know how stressed out they are, and how hard they work. it made me think, "wow.... i'm giving these people refuge." it's not just some distractor from what i studied; it has EVERYTHING to do with what i studied. maybe this really is something i can do with my life.

awesome.