Before I began teaching, I worked in the service and property management industries for many years. I learned about good and bad training, and good and bad management. In my first management role for a quick-serve restaurant in Alaska I vowed to be a good manager. 

It has always stood out to me from my career experience that in companies with good management and good training, results were... predictably good.  This drew me to roles where I could exercise my training and leadership muscles for the benefit of everyone on my team.

Fast forward to the recent past. My interest in training and leadership lead to the realization that I should become a teacher. I earned an M.Ed. while I was teaching full-time. I loved applying what I learned as a  student to being a good teacher. Next, I started teaching adults who wanted to learn English and earn their GED. 

I wouldn't trade my time in the classroom with my students for anything, but the time has come for me to evolve again as I develop my digital and asynchronous teaching skills as an Instructional Designer.