-: Most gratification is with my students.
They keep you young, they keep you on your toes,
and they challenge you, as well too,
because when you go into the classroom, you're going into
a classroom of students that just stare at you,
don't smile.
They come in from the winter, and they keep their hat,
their coat, their scarf, they're sitting in the room,
and I'm telling them we're gonna be here for two hours,
relax a little, be free,
and so breaking that barrier, when you break that barrier
with them, where they begin to get comfortable with you
in the classroom, and you can start the process of
helping them,
I enjoy that, and I'm happy to see when that happens.
And then when they can come to you and say,
I have a question, what do you think about this?
And helping them with that.
I can be hard, I admit it, I can, because I take it
serious, and I take it serious for them,
and I want them to take it serious as well,
but I definitely care about them achievin' their
career goals.
And I always try to get them to think, think long term,
think beyond here, think beyond once you finish your
education, you're going to work.
Why did you come to college, absolutely to learn,
and to grow, and to challenge,
but also part of it is that you want it to help
with your career.
And so, taking this seriously, or at least trying
to take it seriously is something that I would want to see.
Sometimes our students don't do that,
and this is at both colleges that I work at,
and so, sometimes that can be discouraging to me,
that they don't take it,
but I continue to give them everything that I got,
in the midst of that, and hoping that if they get it
a year or two down the line, then I'm happy with that,
but sometimes that can be the challenge,
because you know, working with students, sometimes,
they're students, and so they want to do a lot
of different things, and they're out and about,
and making sure they come to class and all those
different things, submitting their assignments,
and all of that, but that comes with the territory.