Living is a constant challenge - ECOTRAIN QOTW
Life includes the good and the not-so-good that happens to us, ups and downs and challenges. The way we face life's challenges can define us and open us up to new opportunities or sink, if we don't handle it properly. This is what ECOTRAIN QOTW this week is about, sharing a story about a challenge of life, which causes an implosion of memories to lead us to become aware of how we have been assuming the challenges that life has brought us and how we have reacted, changed or grown with each challenge.
In my case, by doing a retrospective investigation I have been able to raise awareness that when something in life offers me resistance or does not happen as I intend to give myself, I get so stressed, so much that I get sick. In front the mental or emotional discomfort, my body gets sick for a while, until I react, I focus and jump towards a change of circumstances, putting all my energy already very clear in changing the status quo, in my favor.
I remember that when I started my work as an educator, after finishing my university career, I had to work in a town about an hour's journey from my city of residence. I had to wake up very early, before 5 a.m. to take the transport, so that I arrived before 7:30 a.m., anticipating any mishap on the road. The workday was from 7:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., but I arrived home between 2:00 and 2:30 p.m., because transportation was slow to take, there were not always cars available and it was time to wait for it to fill up to go out.
For four years I fulfilled my rurality and I no longer saw the time to get a job in my city, so I began the efforts to achieve change. When I started working at the School, we were three new teachers from the same city. So, many times we went together and returned together. I was the first to manage the change, but it turned out to be the last to achieve it. I was alone for a year longer than them and that plunged me into a depression, at the beginning and then, in a constant stress that turned into hypertension and gastritis.
But, my intention to be transferred to my city did not give up, on the contrary, I went to the Education Zone every week to remind the official who competed my case that it was time to change. The good thing is that these errands paid off because when the new School Year started, I was changed and OH, SURPRISE! My body released stress and my health was restored.
In my city, I had to work in an Educational Institution that covered three levels: Pre-school, Primary and Secondary, being assigned to Primary, despite being a specialist in Spanish and Literature, a Secondary Area. It was not a problem for me to adapt, especially because I was grateful for the change, I would not have to travel every day. What he did not count on is that the children were from a neighborhood of low social stratum, which affected their violent behavior, to the point of having to intervene daily to separate fights too aggressive, theft of their few belongings and attitudes disrespectful I came from working in a town where children and teenagers were respectful, kind and considerate, so the shock was brutal and my health felt it too. I had a crisis that required neurological and, later, psychiatric medical attention.
However, I didn't let myself be overcome by the circumstances: returning to work was a challenge, I love challenges and I assumed it successfully. I managed not only to change the state of things in the classroom, but to improve the academic and behavioral performance of children. So much so that they named me "Teacher of the year", that school period.
The following school year, they offered me the opportunity to go to work at the Secondary level and I did not hesitate, for me it was a kind of award and I would not refuse it: for health and pleasure, because I loved Literature and of that would dedicate me I spent several years working at ease until the managers changed and I had some clashes with the new Director, who saw in me competition in the love of the people and in their own performance. So he took me out of the classroom to occupy a Coordination, which was good, but not so much, because every time I finished a School Year, I changed Coordination without allowing it to take root. First I was Chief of Section and I did well, I got along well with the teachers and with the students and they even named me Graduation Godmother. But, it seems that she didn't like it very much because the next year it happened to me for the Student Welfare Coordination. There I discovered that I loved it and worked hard and with great enthusiasm.
However, at the beginning of the following School Year, the Director tried to change me to the Library, which I did not accept and I went to the Educational Zone with my Curriculum Summary under my arm, I had just completed a Master's Degree in Educational Management, so with a lot I made my determination in the School District and was selected to be a Supervisor, a position higher than that of the Principal who tried to turn off my light and enthusiasm for my work, but he lit it even more and killed the fear of innovating.
As Supervisor, I did very well. I loved helping the managers in my charge to advance their institutions. I had the power to make my agenda. There were difficult days and soft days and, in general, a lot of responsibility, but I was prepared and very committed. Over the years, the work became politicized and had to respond to the educational policies of a government that loves improvisations and impositions. Many things changed and the Supervisors became "trustworthy" officials to force the teacher union to assume changes in which the majority did not believe in fostering the ideologization of students and staff. One of the activities of a Supervisor was to force the Directors to attend political-partisan parades, work on Saturdays and holidays in any invention of the Minister in office, take political courses and many other things that left aside the educational quality for the political imposition of the government.
All this sharpened my old tendency to relate mental-emotional discomfort with authorizing the brain to make my body sick and the stress crisis returned, accompanied by episodes of imsomnia and labyrinthitis. Then I resumed psychiatric control, medication and the strong determination to resign from the position of Supervisor for not finding in him an incentive to continue working with love and enthusiasm. Then, I issued an irrevocable resignation letter and took my postponed vacations, which lasted almost a year.
The rest time lent me and my health was restored. I requested re-entry as a Student Welfare Coordinator in one of the institutions that I attended in my time as Supervisor and there I found my vocation again, serve the center of the educational process: the student.
12/08/2019
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This is my story and participation in the ECOTRAIN QOTW this week. For your kind reading, simply THANK YOU.
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Wow! What an impressive journey! You are a really strong person and you've got grit! Well done
Thank you for the empathy and the visit, @mosunomotunde. It is amazing to look back and contemplate everything we have faced and overcome. Life is good, we just have to have the courage to live it with integrity and love for the path we choose.
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Finding the vocation and not simply reacting and responding to job after job, after director after management change. Wonderful that you have found a place after soooo many years and a lot of heartache, that feels like it fits.
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You have captured the essence of my life's journey, @artemislives: find a vocation, feel at home when you work and do your best in the work with which it grew up as a person. Thank you by the support!