The Other First Blog

I promise I'll have more original titles in the future.

As Sean mentioned, my name is Tim, and I am pursuing a career in education. I hope to be a secondary math teacher. As a college undergrad, I was thinking more of being a middle school teacher, but in the past few months have found myself more drawn to high school.

Right now, I have a couple part-time jobs that I enjoy tremendously. Four mornings a week I work in the Puyallup School District with fifth and sixth grade band students. Two to three afternoons a week I am a tutor at an after-school program in the Hilltop neighborhood of Tacoma.

I anticipate that many of my posts will include stories from my jobs, so that is why I felt they were worth mentioning. Also, though I cannot provide exact statistics, the students I work with at the two jobs come from noticeably different demographics. That may or may not pop up in posts; we'll see. It is certainly something I enjoy about the two jobs.

I can't imagine going into criminal justice like Sean. It is a career I never really considered, while education has grown into a passion for me. At first blush, the two are very different.

However, in talking with Sean, I think there are connections to be made between the work we do. I hope those connections emerge as this blog takes shape, post by post.