Paperless Classroom

I'm at the point in my life where I sometimes wonder, "Is this it? Is this all I'm doing for the rest of my life?" Don't misunderstand me.  I love my life.  But I'm 35 years old.  Is going back to school to "be something" an option? Will I ever have a "real job?"  Again, yes, yes, I know being a mom is a real job- but I mean a paying job.  If I did, what would I want to be?  

Several times I've thought about becoming a teacher.  I like kids, I like being bossy.    It seems like the natural thing to do.  Plus you get summers off! I think the balance of working with kids and adults would be pretty fun. Hmmm, but then I'd actually have to get up EVERYDAY and go to work. Yick!

Well, back on the positive side is the idea that came to me the other day as I loaded ream after ream of paper into the shelves in the teacher workroom at the girl's school, if I was a teacher I would use a LOT less paper than these teachers do.  I could figure out how to do it well and teach other teachers.  I could go around to other schools and teach them how to stop wasting so much dang paper. The copier at school seems to have an gigantic appetite.   Teachers have stacks of worksheets, homework packets, art projects, games, newsletters, etc.  It never ends.  I thought about how much our one school in this small town uses, multiply that by all the schools in town, the state, the country-That's a lot of trees.  And it's paper diarrhea.  

I don't know if I really want a career, but I sure would love to see an end to so much waste.