left turn at albuquerque (part 1)

i think i should have taken a left at albuquerque..... i never had any intention in becoming a cartographer. i also wanted to be a school teacher. when i first applied for the school of education at jsu, i was told that i had to declare two major to teach. for instance, like science and math. well i loved history and i wanted to teach nothing but history. i didn't want to get stuck teaching anything else so i didn't know what to do. my advisor told me that i could declare social sciences and that would count as two majors. i was a bit reluctant but i didn't know what else to do. i remember my first geography class and was totally confused. i met alot of people in class that were straight geography majors. i asked them what they were going to do after college. i asked if they were going to be high school teachers. they all laughed. i asked them what else could you do with a geography degree. a few said that they were going to work with oil companies and a few said they were going to do gis. that was the first time that i ever heard the word gis. the next semester in a geography class, dr k was telling the class of all the jobs in the gis field. so after class, i went up and asked him more about gis. he told me briefly what a geographic information system was. he told me to go talk to the geography department head for more info. so i went to dr johnson the next day. dr johnson was very optimistic about the field of gis. i was hooked. i changed my major that day to geographic techniques.