certified schoolteacher waiting tables

"i figured it out, and i think i make more money waiting tables here than i would as a first year teacher." so said our waiter this evening at olive garden in no. charleston, so. carolina...

"and, i also feel that i'm not ready to teach because i got burned-out student teaching last year, and felt i should take a semester off because i don't want to do a half-way job with somebody else's children... my mother doesn't understand this..."

and i said, "well, i do. i think that makes sense... i think as a mother myself, I appreciate that you don't want to do a half-way job with children"...

our waiter wants to teach chorus in middle school... "that's my specialty," he told us somewhat sheepishly... with a big smile and a bit of a twinkle in his eye, i thought...