re: What do you think about elementary school teacher as a career?

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I love children and think I would make a good teacher (

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Now when I had mastered the language of this water and had come to know every trifling feature that bordered the great river as familiarly as I knew the letters of the alphabet, I had made a valuable acquisition.

But I had lost something, too. I had lost something which could never be restored to me while I lived. All the grace, the beauty, the poetry had gone out of the majestic river!

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In short, don't do something you love for work. You'll love it less once it's understood and common place.