As your neighborhood real estate professionals, I've had the opportunity to work with amazing professionals. Today I will introduce you to another local expert to provide meaningful information. I'm Mitchell Jones, and this is The Low Down on Temecula Valley Teaching.

I'm pleased to introduce my friend, Laura Walker. Laura is actually a new neighbor of mine to the Central Park community as well. Laura is a retired school teacher. And she also does a lot of work serving our community. How long have you been a resident in the Temecula Valley?

Mitchell Jones
28 years? Oh, my goodness. So you've seen a lot of a lot of changes? Yes, population growth way before the mall?

Mitchell Jones
Well, during your career as a teacher, what subjects did you teach? And what did you enjoy the most?

Laura Walker
I taught my multitude of subjects throughout my years, but the ones I did the most were Language Arts and Social Studies.

Laura Walker
And for a very short stint about five years I taught cooking.

Mitchell Jones
Oh, really? Oh, tell me a little bit more about that.

Laura Walker
I really enjoyed that. Because it was from six seventh and eighth graders that I I taught. And I really enjoyed it because I got the kids who sometimes weren't successful in other areas. So I got kids who were special needs. In my class, I got kids who were here from other countries, they could all do things that maybe they couldn't do in the academic areas, they could cook, they could measure things, they could work collaboratively with other kids. And so it was really great, because I could surface a lot of different kids. And I really, really enjoyed seeing them all be successful.

Mitchell Jones
Well, if someone were considering going into the teaching field, Laura, what what advice could you offer up for, for them to get started? Well

Laura Walker
go into teaching for different reasons. And I think some people go in for the money. I mean, it's not the best paying job on Earth. But you know, it's, it's good money, it's good benefits, and you get the summers off. So some people go into it for that reason. But as far as I'm concerned, if you're not going into teaching, because you love it, you love imparting knowledge, you love seeing children grow because of something that you've done and you've made a difference in a life, then you shouldn't be going into that profession at all. Going to college is something that, you know, is not that difficult to do to get a teaching credential. But if you don't love it, don't do it. Don't do it. If it's a job that's moving you toward doing something else, and it's a filler, because children know that they can tell when a teacher's heart isn't into it.

Mitchell Jones
If you had to do it all over again, is there something that you would have done differently?

Laura Walker
I don't think so. pick the right profession. I love what I did the entire 33 years. And it's not to say I didn't have difficult kids and moments when it was tough. But it didn't matter. I loved what I did right up until the very last day that I did it. And you know, they say when you get older and you look back on your life, you look back with regret, or you look back with you know, happiness, that you did the right things. And I can say that I can look back and see that I touched a lot of lives. And I'm going to go into my older years knowing that I made a difference in people's lives and and I'll have contentment.

Mitchell Jones
Wow, that is such a great response. You know, I my wishes that everyone in Temecula Valley could experience that and feel that passion about what they've done for their career. Well, you know what,