As child I loved to play school where I actually created lessons to teach math to my friends.  This was short lived as my friends were less enthusiastic about this than I was.  My love for teaching was reawakened when I helped coach soccer at a low income HS in San Francisco and tutored students to keep them eligible.  In particular I love seeing people who think they can't do math, realize that they can.  That is one of the reasons I am drawn to the SLAM (non-STEM) math courses.

 

Even though coaching was in my  20's, I still did not turn to teaching right away. I still had not finished my Bachelor's Degree as I had originally been accepted to UC Berkeley as an Electrical Engineering/Computer Science major, but had not put school first and had gotten kicked out.  I actually got kicked out two more times, once after about 5 years later, but I was still not ready to be a student and soon was kicked out again.  Finally, about 10 years after I started, I was ready to be a student so I was accepted back in only to realize that I dislike electrical engineering, so once more I was kicked out with the condition of being reaccepted if I changed majors to Letters and Science, and completed my lower division requirements.  I switched to Statistics, finished up my first 2 years at DVC, and then completed my degree at Berkeley.