How is teaching different (or alike) from other professions?
In 1995 I answered a classified ad for a teller position at a credit union in northern Michigan. To my surprise, I was offered employment although I had no previous experience. Until this semester, which prevents me from working in this line, I have remained in the banking industry. I began as a teller and worked through share draft processing, MasterCard coordinator, loan processor, and finally branch manager. This line of work offered me an opportunity to develop professionalism, organization, and public communication skills but I knew from the beginning that is was simply a tool for my advancement rather than a lifelong career. The differentiation that I am finding through observing in the schools is that I will make a difference and am not as replaceable as in other professions. I am needed by not only my place of employment but by young individuals as well. While in banking, a customer did not really care if they walked up to a teller window and encountered a new face just as long
