As WordPress continues to recycle old prompts, I pulled another prompt from The Coffee Monsterz Co to respond to today
If you could get a degree in anything without financial or job prospect pressures, what would you study?
In DC comics, an eight-year-old Bruce Wayne‘s life was forever altered when he watched his parents get shot and killed before his very eyes. That event changed the course of his young life and let him on the path to becoming Batman.
Shortly after my divorce, I seriously considered going to law school and eventually going into family law. That’s right. I thought my divorce was going to be my “Batman moment“.
I certainly didn’t think the job prospects for an attorney would be bad. After all this is America: the land of endless litigation. More people are getting divorced now than ever before, and just deserves attorneys who specialize in representing women and divorce cases, I think we need more attorneys who specialize in representing men.
For me, the issue wasn’t law as a career. Rather, was more of the financial obligation and just making such a drastic career change at this stage in my life. But I felt it. I had that drive. I thought at one point that I was going to go into family loss specifically to help men going through divorces. OK, so wasn’t really a drive. It was anger. It was me trying to process all the emotions from my divorce.
I think divorce really is like the “five stages of the grieving process“. Well, maybe without the denial. But you go through anger, bargaining, and ultimately acceptance. The truth is, I don’t know if going to law school would’ve help me get over my divorce any quicker. In fact, I think it probably would’ve made me even more bitter.
Besides, I enjoy teaching way too much. I complain about it, but I complain because I love it. I had to laugh because yesterday, one of my former students came into my classroom, he took a look at my teacher’s edition of the textbook and said “how do you do this?“ I tried to explain to him the way that the teachers edition set up. But I don’t think it was really talking about that. I think he was asking, as a lot of my students do, how I managed to put up with kids day and day out.
I love their energy. I love the enthusiasm. They bring so much excitement to life’s minutiae. 
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