7/30/2019 0 Comments The Adult SaluteI remember the first time I truly felt “Adult.” It wasn’t when I went off to college or when I graduated with my Masters in Special Education 5 years later. It definitely wasn’t when I moved back in with my parents after graduation and started looking for a teaching job for the fall.
No. It was one early morning in October later that same year. I was dragging my feet the long two blocks to the elementary school where I had scored my first ever Professional Job as a K-2 Special Ed teacher, holding tightly in my hands a steaming travel mug of the precious elixir of life: coffee. As I turned the corner for the last half block stretch of my commute, I looked up, and across the street was another young professional on their way to work clutching in their hands their own cup of liquid energy. Our eyes met, and, I am not making this up, he lifted his travel cup, ever so slightly in a sort of ‘Cheers’ gesture and smiled. And that’s when I knew. It was official. I was one of Them. I was an Adult.
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