Louise Beaudry:  

Life Well, let's see, what have I done since high school? Well after I graduated I went to college and got a degree in Natural Science and one in Secondary Science Education as well as a minor in biology. I also earned my teaching degree and then set out on the great quest of job hunting. I lived with my parents for a year after college and became a full-time substitute teacher. Yeah, that was interesting, getting calls at 5:30 in the morning, not knowing what school I would be teaching at or what subject it might be. Well, all I can say is that it was a very good learning experience, one that very quickly taught me that I did not want to be a classroom teacher. So after a year of subbing which included a long-term position at my old high school as a biology teacher, I started searching for a non-traditional teaching job. And along came an opportunity, my college roommate had moved back to her home state of Massachusetts and began working for a science and nature center. The summer of 2001, she called me and said that they were looking for a camp counselor to teach a nature-based program to middle schoolers and she thought that I would be interested. Well I was and I moved to the South Shore of Boston knowing that I only had a job for the summer but I figured that I could always fall back on subbing again, an option that I was not all that excited about. Well, the summer came and went and I loved my new camp job but soon it was over and I fell back into subbing again full time. This went on for a few months and then the science center needed another educator to do some part-time teaching, a perfect chance for me to get my foot in the door of a year-round job that I really wanted. Little by little as ...Expand for more