A Self-Discovered Turning To A Rediscovered Path

Fauxels
A Self-Discovered Turning To A Rediscovered Path

Just yesterday I was counting and thinking about how I got this far. I never knew I would become who I'm today. Everyone had thought I would be an engineer not knowing what the future holds for me.

It goes this:

When I was still in secondary school, I had the choice of going into electrical engineering. It has been my choice and no human being would stop me from becoming an electrical engineer. I was following my uncle to outside work just to learn more about connecting wires, knowing the colour codes, and knowing live and neutral wires as well as earthing wires. I was grounded in it and knew how to connect and install any electric works brought to my doorstep.

At a time when I was in secondary school, I was so poor in mathematics and was struggling to survive just because of the teacher we had back then. I was so eager to know mathematics to the fullest but one spirit was telling me to shift grounds to the commercial department. I was almost shifted until I identified my path and later came back. I got to know myself when one of my relatives who came home from school gave me some pieces of advice. This advice sank into my medulla oblongata and revived my soul again towards the science field.

I later got a mathematics textbook. I began solving problems in mathematics and made it my first-hand choice. Physics and chemistry were out of the line. After some months, I got to know where I belong. Mathematics was now part of me and something I cannot do without.

I went to college to study electrical and electronics engineering which happened to be my choice. I was so good at it since I have always been following my uncle to the field to work. I knew the majority of the topics we were taught.

After five or four years, I was out of school and sat at home without doing anything since jobs here are difficult to get except when you know someone in charge. We call it here in Nigeria "man know man". If you don't know anyone, you will have a lesser chance of gaining a government or any private companies opportunities.

So, I was just at home when my friend took me to where he was teaching in a private school. This was where I got to know myself in detail. I got to know that the path I have chosen was not the real path made for me. I became a teacher teaching secondary school students. I was doing so great in the teaching line.

After working for two years, I gathered some money which I used yet again to proceed to a higher institution to study mathematics education. After five years, I came out successful and became a solid and bonafide teacher. I upgraded from a cheater to a teacher.

Counting the way I discovered myself is of different phases ranging from when I got swayed from becoming an engineer to the commercial field. Now I repaired the lost talent to become a normal shape.

I'm proud to be a teacher but not a cheater.