Yeap, it is true that this is a serious question, just how long is too long before your other options become obsolete?
I've been teaching now for 2 1/2 years and just signed on for the next school year. I have no real plans to return home to Aus any time soon. So long as I'm happy in my work (and i do love it!) then I will continue teaching indefinitely.
There are some people who have, on average, spent four years of their life studying for a university degree. It's only natural that these people would tend to feel as if they may have wasted years studying something they've never quite got around to putting into practice. But the reality is that there are LOTS and LOTS of uni graduates who never actually enter their chosen field - because life gets in the way: other opportunities arise, people fall in love and things get crazy etc etc... Just something worth keeping in mind.
Let life take you where it will - for me that adds up to a couple hundred Mongol teenagers keen to do as little as possible yet often surprising me! I wouldn't have it any other way any time in the foreseeable future!
