New Life in São Paulo

This post will be short, but I hope it will appease Higor's appetite for posts (for a week at least).

For those who don't know me well, I'm Clayton, a computer scientist. I have always been fond of languages in general. At the age of 17, it is usually quite a difficult task to make a life-long decision on one's career. Incidentally, my elder brother had taught me some basic programming and I enjoyed it a lot. When I eventually managed to program an unbeatable version of Tic-tac-toe, I became confident about studying Computer Science. I passed the entrance exam.

My freshman and sophomore years were surprisingly troublesome. I had too much Math and too little programming. Friends kept telling me that things would become better by the third year. As a junior, I was convinced of giving it up so that I could study something more related to languages, but then I started being told of the salary a computer scientist could earn. Those were promising prospects and my friends were fortunately right. After a one-and-a-half-year delay, I obtained my degree.

Subsequently, I started working as a programmer. The pay was excellent and it became even better over the time. I developed a taste for web development and my former ideals were fading out. One day, my manager reallocated me into a completely different project. I felt *TOTALLY* lost (pun intended) and I decided it was time for a change. I became a part-time teacher and took the first semester of the CPE preparatory course in Campinas. In December, fortunately or unfortunately, I was laid off from the company. I moved to São Paulo, took a Teacher Training Course at Seven Pacaembu and started working as a teacher again soon afterwards. My objective now is to obtain the CPE certificate and to gain experience as an ESL teacher.

Clayton Cardoso, CPE 3, evenings.