It’s likely your first job did not spawn a career choice.
Whether it was selling lemonade, delivering papers, doing yard work, shoveling snow or repeating the phrase, “Do you want fries with that?”, most first jobs only inspire us to head in a completely different direction. That was not the case for Daniel Buchanan (BA, BEd ’02).
“Growing up in Hanna, Alta. I had a job as a summer camp counselor in high school,” remembers Buchanan. “That helped me realize right then that I enjoyed the energy of working with kids and they seemed to relate to me also. So becoming a teacher fit me quite well.”