The Top Ten Reasons for Not Choosing a Career As A Fourth Grader

10. To an eight-year-old, politicians look and sound pretty smart. It might be just because you have no idea what they are talking about, but wait . . . that still happens to me sometimes . . .

9. Grown-ups don't give kids an accurate view of what teaching is really all about. You see it as play time . . . with the privilege of writing on the board any time you wanted.

8. Things change . . . quite a bit actually when you are referring to the education world! But as a fourth grader, the only concept you have of change is changing your underwear every day . . . and that's not such a big deal! Besides, when you had a big change in your life, someone else took care of all the details for you!

7. An 80 hour work week means nothing to you . . . you think it will be a piece of cake and you really like cake!

6. Unlike bosses, your parents taught you that no matter what your test scores are, as long as you tried your best, that was good enough.

5. No one tries to rope an eight-year-old into doing high responsibility "volunteer jobs." Doing your chores without being asked was a sufficient display of responsibility.

4. Simplicity ruled your life . . . get up, go to school, play with your friends, come home, eat dinner, go to bed . . . repeat. The concept of planning a day was pretty easy in your mind.

3. You thought your fourth grade teacher was the best, smartest, most fun teacher ever . . . but you didn't see her first 20 years of teaching.

2. You have the perception that children do what you ask them to do . . . because that's how you were. You would have never imagined that a student wouldn't do everything in their power to help the teacher or get good grades!

1. At eight years old you still think grown-ups are always right and have the answer to everything! Ah, to be young and ignorant when solutions were handed to you!