JON ALLEN

I am a...

Teacher
I find it interesting that my whole life I have wanted to be a teacher. I have always respected my teachers that would lead us to concepts and understanding as opposed to cramming material for tests. In fact, as a freshman in college I had a major in Education with a minor in Mathematics. My aspiration was to be a math teacher. Math has always come easily to me and I thought I wanted to teach. My mother always use to tell me what a good teacher I was as I showed her how to use the delete button on our computer, maybe that’s where it came from. Turns out that Calculus isn’t real math unfortunately (at least in my book). It deals more with concepts than actual numbers and I didn’t handle that well. I gave that three shots and realized that math, and consequently education, were not for me. I changed my major to business management for the supposed moolah, but was never able to shake the fulfillment I got from teaching people new concepts and seeing their “light bulb moment”.