After 2 years teaching in Korea, I came home energized. The job market though was not. I had finally found something I loved, a purpose for my life. In Korea, and in many Asian countries, and perhaps here too once upon a time, to be a teacher is to hold one of the most important and respected jobs in all of society. I wanted to continue to hold that entrusted position but to influence kids in my own community. Kids that were like me. That find it hard to excel because of peer pressure and mediocre teachers like my own sophomore math teacher. How could I continue to teach at home without a state teaching certification? Well I couldn't. But I did end up finding a small teaching company started by a Godly woman whose vision it is to bring education to every corner of the globe.
She flew me to her home in Washington DC and shared her vision with me. Her dream is bigger than anything I have ever imagined but her personality and passion was so magnetic that I joined her company and went back to Korea to help her. I worked from Korea and the US as an online teacher. A rewarding job for sure, one that I have a difficult time explaining to my elderly grandparents. The world is really truly connected and small. And with a press of a button I can connect and positively impact people on the other side of the world. This to me is the most amazing thing that I have discovered so far in my life.
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