Shabaz Ali

And I was like, okay, well, yeah, I could do that.

Okay.

That's what I'm doing then.

Is there anything you miss about teaching?

miss it every day I loved teaching I would go back to it tomorrow if I could if this job didn't pay well I loved standing in front of the classroom teaching imparting wisdom like just just educating people I love doing it I love inspiring science and inspiring the love of chemistry to these kids and also just teaching giving them life skills and helping some of these kids navigate a really chaotic world

I had my year eights who would look to me as like, for some of them, the only stable person, only stable adult in their lives.

And I thought, oh, is this what I'm supposed to be doing?

This is what I'm supposed to be doing.

And then, you know, being able to have my, I organized my room and I thought, oh, this is it.

Like my books were organized.

The kids knew exactly what they got from me.

You know, they had structure in their lives.

They were taught science.

I enjoy teaching.

And then five years later, I was still there and like,

And you had a tidy classroom.

Yeah, very tidy classroom.

Very, very, yeah.

I mean, I wasn't.

They didn't know that, though.