I hate making decisions...

Well another school year is fast approaching, and I'm not sure what classes to take. I'm leaning towards just getting my history degree and saying to hell with being a teacher. It's not that I don't think I'd enjoy being a teacher, but I honestly don't know how I'll work the semester of student teaching. You can't have a job that semester and I'm pretty sure my financial aid won't pay the bills. Plus you're at the mercy of some department drone who decides where you'll teach. If they decide I have to teach somewhere outside of town it just won't work. I don't have anyone around to take the kids to school if I have to leave before they have to be at school and I don't want to make them change schools.

I would love more than anything to get a job doing GIS. That's what I do at my part time/temporary job right now, but morphing that into a full time/permanent position isn't promising. If I can get a job in that field, I'm pretty sure I'd be willing to move. I think I'd even suffer through life in the city if I could get the right job.

I keep hearing from the teachers in my family that it's not worth going into teaching in this day and age. I think that's pretty sad, and doesn't bode well for our future.