Ms. Wilson,Thanks for such a GREAT semester!!!! I don’t recall ever saying that I didn’t like your class, but if I did it was only a joke. I really enjoyed your teaching style and you made learning about the law fun.
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Hi Ms. Wilson!
I was just e-mailing you to say Hi! I really did enjoy Introduction to Law last semester. Thanks for instructing me to think beyond the box even in a law class. I really appreciated when you took the time out to help me when…..….
This has been my favorite class so far and I have enjoyed learning from you Mrs. Wilson.
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Thanks for the fun ride Ms. Wilson!
These are but a few of the comments that I’ve gotten from some of my students this past semester. For those of you who don’t know, I’m also a Professor [of Law and Criminal Justice]. That’s my Red Rubber Ball.
I was talking to one of my bosses recently, and he told me that I had paid my dues in this game and that I should now make my career about what I really want to be doing. He asked me what it was that I really wanted to do, in my heart of hearts. Without hesitation, I said “I want to teach.” Strangely enough, he told me that I should try to become a law school professor. My reply: Me? I’m not law school professor material!? His reply: *blink*blink*blink* Ummm, why not? And I didn’t know. He told me that I was smart enough, had enough credentials, and had the passion, so there was really nothing keeping me from it. Imagine that…me underestimating myself.
That’s it. I love teaching. Really, I do. That’s the thing that I would do for free (in theory). So, that’s the ball I’m deciding to chase. Maybe soon you’ll be able to come visit me at a college or, dare I say, law school near youMemphis! Wish me luck!
Filed under: Gettin my OWN on
Following this post, I’m still on a mission and ya’ll are going with me. I have a goal, and if I put it here, ya’ll can call me out if I don’t at least try to reach it.
Goal: The Savvy Scribes (my resume/writing/consulting biz) will be featured in Essence magazine’s side hustle of the month within the next 12 months.
Ya’lll better get your suscribing on, cause your girl is as good as in there! Now…….where to start……
Filed under: Gettin my OWN on
As Oprah Winfrey recalls it, she was struggling with whether her nationally syndicated talk show would or even could pull itself out of the muck that was enveloping daytime TV when she wrote a particularly ambitious yet prophetic journal entry.
She wrote on May 24, 1992, of wanting to leverage her top-rated program to fulfill her “vision of creating my own network” to teach people “to be all they can be in the world and living their best lives.”
(Quote provided by: Phil Rosenthal, Chicago Tribune)
Read that again. She wrote it in her journal in 1992. WHAT?! And she worked, and she undoubtedly prayed, and she didn’t stop dreaming and she got it. Fifteen years later, but she got it. And even for Oprah, getting your own network is no small feat. I didn’t make any New Year’s Resolutions, I figured that when I needed inspiration, it would come to me. Here it is.
I’ve had this dream of a resume business for a long time. I do a couple resumes here and there for a couple dollars and I’m very good at it. Very. Every day I think of things I could do with this business, but days go by and I don’t do them. I mean, I have huge dreams for this thing. It’s my baby. But life gets in the way. Is life getting in the way of some dream you have?
I aspire to have what Oprah has. I’m realistic, but that’s what I aspire to. My resume biz is the same as her OWN, and I can have it, just like she has that. What is your OWN? Whatever it is, you can have it, too. I’m starting today. This is my journal, and in it I’m writing of my vision to create a successful resume company and use it to help kids get into college and graduate schools. I don’t know right now today exactly how, but it’s been recorded and I’m on my way. You can write yours in your journal, or you can write it here in mine, but whatever you do….write it somewhere.
