There has been a change of plans!
While I remain interested in Instructional Design, I decided to change lanes a few months ago and take a series of Project Management courses at a local community college. I am preparing to take the Project Management Institute’s (PMI) Certified Assistant Project Manager (CAPM) certification when I’m done with the courses. I know, exciting!
I have already started putting out feelers for PM jobs locally and remotely. Sometimes I wonder why I keep adding courses and certifications, trying to build up to the next thing. But it’s not that I’m wishy-washy about my career! Anything but! It’s that I continuously strive to improve and educate myself about ways I can improve.
Project Management is one of those jobs that is perfect for former teachers. We manage every semester and all of its moving parts.
Teachers juggle competing priorities, inform stakeholders and provide regular updates, plan, plan, and plan, make contingency plans, and adjust their plans regularly through the semester. We have to think on our toes and quickly learn new subjects when we are assigned classes to teach. So many things! More than that!
As you can tell, I’m excited about this next step. But I also love teaching.
“I know not what the future holds, but be that what it may, I go to it laughing.”
–Herman Melvile
Natalay G. Maria 