They say you should leave a place better than you found it...

Post date: Jun 5, 2015 1:28:20 AM

It's been fun, the room looks just as empty as when I first walked into it. I am officially done working at FSD 145, Freeport High School was a great place to work, just handed my keys in today. I learned a lot during my four years there. I wish all my students the best of luck with their future endeavors. I do like teaching... it's a complex profession, there's parts I love and then there were the parts I couldn't fix. Teaching was easy. People are hard. Maybe I'll come back to teaching and work on those tough parts but for now I'm going to Syracuse University to pursue my Masters of Fine Arts in Painting and hopefully figure out what I want to really do with art. I don't think MFA will actually solve anything, but it will change things. If working here has taught me anything it has only confirmed what my father would always say when we asked him 'how was work today?', without fail, everytime he said, "Work is work." Which I take to mean, work is what you make of it, and me and him differ on this drastically but then again we don't really compare. I'm just starting my career while he's well into his prime and has several decades of experience on me. I think I can make my work better, and I hope that making this change will be for the better. And while I could do a whole lot of good work here this is the point in my plan where I set aside time to pursue this degree and if I don't do it now then I'd just feel stagnant. But with that said, here's to a brighter future, and another empty room... waiting to be filled.