New Beginnings and Ambitious Futures

This has been a long time coming and I am evenly balanced between scared and excited... but as of yesterday,  I made a big life choice. I have officially left my Physics secondary school and a-level teaching job to step further into my creative career and ambitions.

Since I was very young, I've always had two ambitions. I wanted to be a filmmaker and a Physics teacher.

I worked hard, really hard to get the top grades I could in everything I put my mind to. Residing in the library from the crack of dawn until late at night way after the sun went down, every day since I was in secondary school, all the way up to the end of my degree and teaching licenses.

Then, I did it, I was a Physics teacher, and have been for over 5 years. Teaching (especially in a state school) is one of the most underappreciated and difficult professions I can imagine. Not only are you managing the safety of 30 children at a time, but you are organising them to follow complex tasks, using your research in the neuroscience of learning to develop their minds as a whole and for your particular subject specialty and dealing with behavioural and social issues which is one of the hardest parts for sure.

The time I've had teaching at a secondary school has had its ups and downs, but the team, the fellow teachers I did this borderline insane job with supported me and each other every minute of every day. It goes without saying that teachers are the most resilient, patient, passionate, thick-skinned, incredible people I and probably you will ever meet, and really do need a massive thank you. If you are a teacher out there. Thank you. If you know a teacher, thank them.

I will always be a teacher, it's something that is a part of me and is quite addictive. I'm not giving up teaching Physics either. Not by a long shot. I'm in the final stages of making my very own complete Physics course, gophysics.co.uk, and am hoping to launch in September, combining my rare combination of skills in teaching, physics, and animation.

As well as my Physics course, I'll also be diving further into my work as an animator and university lecturer in the creative fields, which is equally exciting!

Your support is what has helped encourage me to start this scary but exciting new chapter. Thank you.