Hey everyone!<\/p>\n
Very interesting reading about all of you…quite a diverse group.\u00a0\u00a0 My story is that I am from Richmond (noticed that a couple people teach there) and went to UBC where I studied Geography and International Relations.\u00a0 After about 4 years of work and travel I decided to get into education and have thoroughly enjoyed myself thus far.\u00a0 The job market sucked in BC when I graduated, so I packed my bags to move to Wuhan, China.\u00a0 Most people look confused when I tell them where I work and live, and even though most of you haven’t heard of it (I hadn’t either) it has over 10 million people.\u00a0 I have taught Geography, History, Social Studies and PE while here and this year I have shifted gears and now work as an academic advisor.\u00a0 Before I got into education I worked as a stock broker in Vancouver.\u00a0 It is a sad story, but I’ll give you the coles notes version.\u00a0 I got licensed to trade in September 2008, about a week before the global market collapsed.\u00a0 My dad blamed me, even though I assured him I wasn’t that<\/em> important.\u00a0 It was real tough working on commission and trying to build a client list when the last thing people wanted to do was discuss their sinking stocks.\u00a0 I hated it.\u00a0 Remembering the last time that I really enjoyed myself working, I thought about when I taught in Mexico my first year out of UBC. \u00a0 I applied to the BEd program and the rest is history. \u00a0 This course looks really cool and am looking forward to the readings and the input of all of you.<\/p>\n Mike Rae<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hey everyone! Very interesting reading about all of you…quite a diverse group.\u00a0\u00a0 My story is that I am from Richmond (noticed that a couple people teach there) and went to UBC where I studied Geography and International Relations.\u00a0 After about 4 years of work and travel I decided to get into education and have thoroughly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493567],"tags":[2710,14967,37836],"class_list":["post-7322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-week-01-introductions","tag-china","tag-emerging-markets","tag-richmond"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7323,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7322\/revisions\/7323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}