10 Reasons To Become A Teacher...

Teaching is a special calling. It is not a job well-suited to everyone. In fact, many new teachers leave within the first 3-5 years of teaching. However, there are many rewards that come with this oft maligned career. Here are my top ten reasons why teaching can be a great profession.

 1. Student Potential

Unfortunately, not every student will succeed in your class. However, this fact should not keep you from believing that every student has the potential for success. This potential is so exciting - each new year presents new challenges and new potential successes

2. Student Successes

Closely related to the previous pick, student success is what drives teachers to continue. Each student who didn't understand a concept and then learned it through your help can be exhilarating. And when you actually reach that student that others have written off as being unteachable, this can truly be worth all the headaches that do come with the job.

3. Teaching a Subject Helps You Learn a Subject

You will never learn a topic better than when you start teaching it. I remember my first year teaching AP Government. I had taken Political Science courses in college and thought I knew what I was doing. However, the student questions just made me dig deeper and learn more. There is an old adage that it takes three years of teaching to truly master a subject and in my experience this is the truth.

4. Daily Humor

If you have a positive attitude and a sense of humor, you will find things to laugh about each day. Sometimes it will be silly jokes you will make up as you teach that might get a laugh from your students. Sometimes it will be jokes that kids share with you. And sometimes students will come out with the funniest statements without realizing what they've said. Find the fun and enjoy it!

5. Affecting the Future

Yes it might be trite, but it is true. Teachers mold the future each day in class. In fact, it is a sad fact that you will see some of these students more consistently day-to-day than their parents will.

6. Staying Younger

Being around young people everyday will help you remain knowledgeable about current trends and ideas. It also helps break down barriers.

7. Autonomy in the Classroom

Once a teacher closes that door each day and begins teaching, they really are the ones who decide what's going to happen. Not many jobs provide an individual with so much room to be creative and autonomous each day.

8. Conducive to Family Life

If you have children, the school calendar will typically allow you to have the same days off as your kids. Further, while you might bring work home with you to grade, you will probably be getting home close to the same time as your children.

9. Job Security

In many communities, teachers are a scarce commodity. It is fairly certain that you will be able to find a job as a teacher, though you might have to wait until the start of a new school year and be willing to travel within your county/school district. While requirements might be different from state to state, once you have proven yourself a successful teacher, it is relatively easy to move around and find a new job.

10. Summers Off

Unless you work in a district that has a year-round-education system, you will have a couple of months off in the summer where you can choose to get another job, teach summer school, or just relax and vacation. Further, you typically get two weeks off during Christmas/Winter Holidays and one week for Spring Break which can really be a huge benefit and provide much needed rest time.

Dota Heroes come to life?

DOTA RULZZZ

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DISCLAIMER: The following is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to dota heroes in our universe, real or potentialed, is purely coincidental.

What if


In a time not so long ago, In a parallel universe not so far away, there lived Dota heroes much like the ones we play with today. Here is a brief glimpse at what happens in some of their "almost" normal lives.

Rikimaru attempts to backstab someone, but it turns out he had kevlar on and carried a shotgun.

Sniper is hired to hit a mafia boss, but drinks too much beforehand and misses the shot, killing a nearby cat instead. Unfortunately the cat belonged to lina inverse, who promptly nukes him to oblivion in a fit of rage.

Tiny takes up residence in the himalayas where he tosses unsuspecting travellers off the mountains, thereby making him a feared demon-god in local folklore

Goblin techies runs up to the opposing team while playing football, shouts "SUICIDE SQUAD FTW" and blows himself up.

Juggurnaut is sent to slay the tiny beast, but after activating bladefury, he becomes dizzy, stumbles and falls off a cliff.

Alchemist forgets to read the directions to his chemistry set and blows his house up.

Pudge opens a butcher shop in the middle east, but is arrested when authorities learn that he sells meat off his own body.

The Two Headed Dragon's two heads have a fight over who gets the tv remote, resulting in one head killing the other. It prefers to be known as the one headed dragon now.

Necrolyte is arrested for acts of necrophilia

Bone fletcher goes broke, and finds a job in a science lab as an anatomy specimen.

Lycanthrope stars as a stunt double for the werewolf professor lupin in Harry potter, the Prisoner of Azkaban

Bristleback is ambushed by a group of hunters who kill him and make roast bacon out of him.

Dragon Knight: forgets dragon form before flying off a building, and falls in slow motion like wiley e coyote from the road runner show.

Faceless void: Miscasts backtrack and goes all the way back in time to the jurassic era.

Drow Ranger: Marries Bon jovi, then divorces him after shooting him with an arrow during an argument. This inspired the song, "Shot through the heart, and you're to blame, you give love a bad name"

Slardar: Sinks the titanic after it crashes into his favorite iceberg.

Naix: Gets ripped to shreds by secret service agents after trying to eat the president of the US

Death Prophet: Burnt at stake during salem witch trials for practice of witchcraft

Panda: Gets into a drunken brawl with Russell crowe. He later joins Alcoholics anonymous for his drinking problems

Tormented Soul: Undergoing shock therapy for depression.

Bounty Hunter gets hired as a private detective to investigate infidelity issues.

Ursa warrior stars in a kids tv show called playtime with fuzzywuzzy.

Furion accidently teleports into a tree and is promptly impaled.

Nightstalker becomes a bouncer at a bar.

Magnataur accidently hits himself on the head with his club. He now believes hes a pokemon.

Viper gets shot down by british fighters during world war 2 after they believe he's the latest model of german fighters.

Pugna gets mobbed by people every time he goes out coz they mistake him for michael jackson after michael's plastic surgery.

Enigma creates a blackhole in the bermuda triangle, causing many ships, airplanes and pidgeons to be transported to another dimension where barney the dinosaur is straight and pigs fly.

Troll goes berserk with rage on a flight when he is not given his cocoa puffs. He is sentenced to 10 weeks of anger management with Jack Nicholson like Adam Sandler.

Spectre gets pwned by the ghostbusters.

Rooftrellen fell asleep standing and is now someone's grandmother's armchair. (thx to lucknskll for this one)

Ogre magi sues pixar for the stereotyping of ogres in the movie shrek. He claims that now people believe all ogres are green and talk with scottish accents.

Phantom lancer is heartbroken when he finds out that his images have been sleeping with his girlfriend.

Lightning Revenant becomes an outcast from society because anyone who goes near him is struck by lightning every 3 seconds.

Lucifer has airconditioning installed in hell because the inhabitants keep annoying him about the heat.

Rhasta spawns serpent wards on a plane, inspiring the movie "Snakes on a Plane"

now guys, your turn.