Why an education major?

We've been asked to give a brief reflection on why we chose education. As stated in my introduction in class last week, I am not an education major but a liberal studies major. However, many years ago when I entered college out of high school, I was an elementary education major at IPFW. I completed 2 years and thought that I just couldn't wait any longer to marry my high school sweetheart! I took a full time job in manufacturing, married, and continued to work towards my degree part time. As time went on though, I felt that I had lost my enthusiasm for teaching and was also earning a very good living. I left school, continued to work, had a family, and life was good, for a while. Then life threw me some curve balls and everything changed. My first child died at the age of 5 years old from leukemia and my first daughter was born immediately after his death. My husband and I divorced within the year and I became a working single parent. I did eventually remarry and have another daughter but my job of 25 years came to an end when the company I worked for went bankrupt. I was faced with finding a new job without a bachelor's degree which is much more difficult today than many years ago. I began working here and decided to complete my degree in liberal studies with concentrations in social sciences and education since so many of my credits that transfered from IPFW were education classes. I am enjoying this new opportunity and look forward to learning new technology that I can hopefully use in assisting the faculty members that I work with in the School of Arts and Sciences and also my junior high age daughter.