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Those who know me, know I'm a teacher, those who don't........I'm a teacher. A music teacher. I'm starting my 27th year and looking back, if I wouldn't have had some burnout in my career I would be looking at retirement pretty soon. But as it happens, between those burnout years selling insurance (yep, seems a lot of teachers turned to that) and relocating to another state (the best move I ever made), I still have about 10 years of teaching to go.

Now you may think I'm being "sour grapes" about all this, I'm not. Right now in my life I am having the best time teaching. I enjoy my job, the kids are great to teach and I work for a great school system. Ten years will go by quickly.

I will be the first to admit that I'm not the greatest teacher in the world nor am I the worst. My philosophy is that kids need to learn to enjoy music for what it is, they need a little fun in their lives and to learn about music at the same time. I have found that the things I remember best are the ones where I had the most fun. So I try to make my classes fun. It is nice to have former students come back to you years later and remark on a certain song or songs they had learned and how much they enjoyed it. Now that's what teaching is all about.