{"id":2845,"date":"2014-06-07T07:10:52","date_gmt":"2014-06-07T12:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/?p=2845"},"modified":"2014-06-07T07:10:52","modified_gmt":"2014-06-07T12:10:52","slug":"nine-years-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/07\/nine-years-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Nine Years Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been another great year in the classroom, and I feel as engaged and motivated as I ever have. I&#8217;m\u00c2\u00a0definitely looking forward to the time off in the coming summer weeks, but I no longer fear the arrival of September, as I did when I first jumped into this new career.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to believe that it&#8217;s been a decade since I left my IT career. I would write &#8220;no regrets&#8221; but that\u00c2\u00a0sounds too\u00c2\u00a0pensive, like I really\u00c2\u00a0<em>do<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0have regrets but\u00c2\u00a0I&#8217;m trying to convince myself that I don&#8217;t. In this case it&#8217;s the opposite of regret\u00e2\u20ac\u201dI am profoundly fortunate that I found a career that gives back more than I put into it.\u00c2\u00a0For those of you who know some of my background interests, consider that in addition to teaching a fantastic social studies course all year, I did the following in my classroom:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>taught students how to design 3D models to print on a 3D printer<\/li>\n<li>had a bocce ball tournament (well, we went outside for this)<\/li>\n<li>blasted music during our weekly advisory musical chairs deathmatch<\/li>\n<li>played dungeons and dragons\u00c2\u00a0(!)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s a very good fit.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2846\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2846\" style=\"width: 474px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Roy-Advisory-2013-2014-close-up-pixlr.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2846\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Roy-Advisory-2013-2014-close-up-pixlr.jpg?resize=474%2C315&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"My awesome advisory, 2013-2014\" width=\"474\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Roy-Advisory-2013-2014-close-up-pixlr.jpg?resize=1024%2C682&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Roy-Advisory-2013-2014-close-up-pixlr.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Roy-Advisory-2013-2014-close-up-pixlr.jpg?w=948&amp;ssl=1 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Roy-Advisory-2013-2014-close-up-pixlr.jpg?w=1422&amp;ssl=1 1422w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2846\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">My awesome advisory, 2013-2014<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been another great year in the classroom, and I feel as engaged and motivated as I ever have. I&#8217;m\u00c2\u00a0definitely looking forward to the time off in the coming summer weeks, but I no longer fear the arrival of September, as I did when I first jumped into this new career. It&#8217;s hard to believe &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/07\/nine-years-down\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nine Years Down<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2848,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[51,80],"class_list":["post-2845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-teaching","tag-pictures","tag-teaching"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Roy-Advisory-2013-2014-close-up-featured.jpg?fit=3264%2C1958&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2845"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2849,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2845\/revisions\/2849"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}