Be Happy
Submitted by on January 1, 1998
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“Be Happy”
When I was growing up I wanted to teach math. Looking back, I believe the decision was based totally on the fact my favorite teacher taught algebra. One may ask why I chose teaching at all. My environment as a child included the professions of farming, teaching, and preaching. After working on our farm for the first week of a long fifteen or so years, I knew I wanted nothing to do with farming. As far as I was concerned, preaching was for men. At least my surroundings told me it was. I wanted to be a math teacher, then I woke up, or so I thought. Actually, when I was in high school, I really enjoyed my accounting classes, mostly because I did well but partly because they interested me more than any of my other classes. By this point in time, I had ruled out becoming a teacher totally. I found out there were actually more professions from which...