Minoring in Technical Writing is one of the things that caught the
dean’s eye when she was interviewing me to be an English professor at Collin College. It was (and still is) my endeavor to be a Creative
Writing professor. Now, I know those
classes go to full-time professors, and it may be awhile before I can teach one
of those classes.
Here is the funny thing… I never thought about teaching Tech Writing. I enjoy creating, designing, and revising
documents of all types, but I never had the desire to teach others how to do
it. I have shown a few people some
techniques I use, but I never set my mind to be a TECHNICAL WRITING professor. It never entered my mind. Looking back, I see that I had a narrow view
of who I could be as a successful professor.
– I thought I would only be happy if I was teaching Creative Writing.
I teach Tech Writing. I
love it. It is one of my favorite
classes. To see the growth of the
students over the course of the semester, is amazing. To see the students start out disliking a
project, then to see them change their mind is great. To see an email from a student saying that they
were able to use something that we talked about in the previous weeks at their
job, makes me smile.
As I write this, tears fill my eyes because I can now see that I had
one vision for myself as a college professor, but God had another vision for
me. He thought me worthy of helping to
make people better technical writers.
Do not limit yourself, be open to wherever you can go in
life. It could be a better place for
you, and you could have a lot of fun on the journey.
