this wasn't in the plan |but life is still pretty good

I have been doing on-line tutoring for the past four years. Last year, the company I work for instated a new policy which meant I needed  a current teaching license in order to stay employed. For a variety of reasons, I let the teaching certificate I previously had (from a different state) lapse a few years back. I knew right away that I wanted to get the license, it just involved me taking a few tests and paying a lot of money, but shortly after I registered for the first test I started thinking that maybe I didn't want to spend the money. My hours decreased quite a bit and I wondered if it would really be worth the effort and money.

I received the official teaching certificate in the mail last week and now I have no regrets. Though I don't intend to use it for more than my part time tutoring gig, it feels so nice to have it. I like knowing that, if I ever needed to or wanted to, I could get a teaching job.