“Are you sure you wanna be a teacher?”

When I started my blog, some of you may aware that I was a mathematic teacher’s candidate. I dreamt a lot to be teacher since elementary school. I chosed Mathematics as my subject because it was the subject I most confident. Joining national competitions, having good enough grades, volunteering at informal schools, and associating to math club are my willpower to prepare the future’ school life. My path was clear, my journey was scripted, and my destination was chosen. However, life offers me different way. I end up to be an ordinary multi-national company’s employee, as Human Resources successor.

If we are back to my university life, youth movement and development were my passion aside from Math. Together with my friends, we shared positive energies, influent youth around us, actively organized and participated on many youth movement about education. At that time, we tried to instill the perspective of how people see education as teacher’s responsibility. Education is not about how professional the teachers are or how good government maintains the curriculum is. Education is about us, it’s a mirror of our nation, the face of all of us. Being said that every living person is a prominent contributor. Whatever your background is, your thoughts-actions-words are matter cause everyone is an educator. How influencer on YouTube/social media affects society is undeniable example of this concept.

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The activities I did outside campus caught my senior attention then he asked, “Are you sure you wanna be a teacher?” I replied YES with full confidence like I got 100% assurance for my future life. Yet, time passed and the story began. After I graduated from college, I did applied so many Math teacher position in national or international school. And yes, most of them called me back. School A asked me to come to Jakarta when I was in Surabaya. School B asked my graduate certificate when I didn’t have it yet. School C asked me to be an assistance when I applied as teacher. In conclusion, no school was matched with me until the semester began. No more teacher’s open position. All has filled. No room for me.

Rather than giving up, I kept sending my resume to some available position, such as business development, trainer, merchandiser, marketing, and many more. I got accepted in some field, but I rejected or resigned on the first day. I felt those jobs aren’t compatible with my passion, I will be unhappy or disappoint them if I decided to stay. Can you imagine how crazy I was? LOL! Shortly, I got a call from the company I work now. They offered me 2 months junior HR position with pretty well salary. Then I said to myself, “I think this is good opportunity for me. Well known company. Good salary. And only 2 months! I can search another position as teacher after that.”

   

Not long after I got onboard, my family called me. Our family business has lost, my father got heart attack, and we were in debt. As first daughter in my family, I had no wish except fully support them, especially my sister who was in college. Alhamdulillah, they got my back. By working in this company, I could support my sister’s college fee and sent little cash to my mother. This is all because of Allah. I am not sure if I was a teacher, I could support as much as I had subsidize. I am not saying that teacher’s salary is not well paid and couldn’t support family. NO, that’s not my point! My stories are all about fate. The way Allah gave me signs to not accept another offers except my current company is superb. When planning was everything for me, Allah surprise me in many ways. When I defined my own success, Allah reminds me that success is doing the right thing in Ridho Allah SWT.

“At any time, everything could be happen, every option could be possible, and every step could be the future. I truly believe that everything that we do and everyone that we meet is put in our path for a purpose. I don’t know what the future may hold, but I know who hold the future, ALLAH SWT.”

There we go, at the end, if you ask me whether I really sure to be a teacher, the answer is no more. No more only as teacher, but beyond that, an educator. I wanna be a teacher for my private student and future children, also an educator for people around me. 

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