Quote Originally Posted by birdgirl73
WeedFaerie, do you have any ambitions toward ever teaching writing? I see in your discussions with Ian very good critical thinking skills and an ability to take good writing and make it better. That's a rare gift, my dear, and one you need to be aware you have. I'll be eager to hear where you hope to go with both your verbal and critical skills because I think you'll get a lot of mileage out of one or both of them.

Ian, I hope you'll keep writing more and more. It's such good therapy, I think, and you clearly have a knack for it.

It's been 20 years since I taught writing/English but only a couple of weeks since I left a job as a writer. I hope y'all don't mind my butting in with comments to both of you!
Thank you so much for the compliment, that means a lot to me. After getting my associates degree in general studies I transferred to a University majoring in English Education for the Secondary Level (8th-12th grade). I came to the realization that standing in front of a class and working at the very place I hated so much as a child-teen wasn't for me. I changed my major before having to student teach. I'm now an English and Psychology major and have about one and half years before getting my bachelors in both. I'll be continuing on in clinical and counseling psychology (you're right, I am very analytical and critical lol). All my english teachers told me I should stick with it and by now my essay writing skills are developed enough that I expect an A with every essay I hand in (and thankfully I haven't been disappointed yet). I trained myself to question every sentence I write and read. I was thinking of working in a publishing house while I go to grad school for psychology. Maybe someday I'll get into education again, if I get a doctorate and can teach at the college level I wouldn't mind that at all.
Any other ideas or advice of what you think I could do with a bachelors in English would be much appreciated? What kind of writing do you do now? Thanks for your observations and comments Birdgirl! xo