I took my workplace for granted because I thought it was a place I went to and got paid. However, since making money as a writer, I have realized that my job as a teacher is full of stories. I started journaling many years ago as a therapy to deal with the stress of teaching. I soon realized I could collect and make all my stories into a memoir.
Medium helped me gather my thoughts and write a memoir. I’m still a teacher, so I won’t publish it until I retire from teaching. But picture the drama you would see on a high school campus. You can imagine that with the students. I assure you that there is drama even among the faculty and staff of a school.
I wrote my memoir from the point of view of a teacher. Teachers receive stress from students, but teachers have to deal with an equal amount of stress among colleagues. It’s called school culture.
I started writing bits and pieces of stories on Medium. However, the stories I wrote in my memoir peel back the curtain on how states and counties run public schools.
Wherever you work, there are stories everywhere. Every incident that causes you to feel an emotion is a story. The way you interact with colleagues and your boss is a story. Think of the memoirs you have read. Write your story. One day, you, too, will be publishing it.
It couldn’t have happened if you didn’t go to work every day. Your job is a valuable asset to being a writer. It is your resource for your memoir.
I haven’t thought of a title for my memoir book yet, but I know I would never have written it without my teaching job.
Being in the home stretch of my teaching career made me realize and appreciate the valuable resource my teaching job was as a writer.
Write your story today.
I like to call my blogs on Medium a memoir in motion :) - it's about my life/relationship/writing experiences - perhaps one day, I too will write a memoir 💙