Why I quit NASA to become an ESL Teacher

  • [Tiffani] Hey!

My name is Teacher Tiffani

and I want to tell you something.

I used to work for NASA.

Yeah, that’s right.

NASA.

But one day I quit and I decided

to become an English teacher.

Today I want to tell you my story.

Welcome to Speak English with Tiffani.

I am Teacher Tiffani.

Let’s jump right in.

It all started in the year 2000.

That’s the year that I went to university,

and I had two majors.

My first major was Computer Science

because I loved computers,

and my second major was Commercial Art

because I had always,
and I still do love art.

In 2004, I graduated.

It had been a great four years, but now

it was time to move forward in life.

After graduation I received a phone call.

It led to an interview.

The interview was great,

and because the interview was so great,

you guessed it, I got a job at NASA.

Everything was amazing.

My job at NASA was as a web developer.

I designed multiple websites

for different sectors of NASA.

It was great.

I was a part of the
planning, the development,

and the maintenance of multiple websites.

I had an amazing boss, who treated

his employees with the utmost respect,

and I also had amazing coworkers.

So I have so many good memories

about my time at NASA.

But while I was working there,

I started to feel like
something was missing.

You see, remember I was an artist,

and I wanted to use my art

to directly help people.

During this time of trying to figure out

what I should do with my life,

I had some friends who had lived in Korea,

some of them for a few months,

and some of them for a couple of years,

and they raved about
how amazing Korea was.

So I thought to myself

maybe I should also go to Korea.

So, in 2009, that’s exactly what I did.

I took the long 14-hour flight

and went to South Korea.

My time in South Korea was spent

as a missionary English teacher.

I had so many students from businessmen

to businesswomen, doctors, lawyers,

homemakers, stay-at-home moms.

It was amazing!

I had thousands of students

and I loved all of them.

But there was something that happened.

You see, as I was spending time

with my students, I started noticing

how hard they were studying.

They were studying English grammar,

English expressions, English vocabulary,

English pronunciation, and English idioms,

and something came to mind.

It was a quote from Nelson Mandela.

The quote says, “If you talk to a man

“in a language he understands,

“that goes to his head.

“If you talk to him in his language,

“that goes to his heart.”

You see, what was
happening in my heart was

I desired to reach my students

truly and sincerely, I wanted to speak

to their hearts, which meant

I also had to start studying.

And that’s when I decided to study Korean,

Korean grammar, expressions, everything.

And at that time this is

what my schedule looked like.

I would wake up at 4 am every day,

study for about four hours,

then take a shower, and at 9 am

I would go to my Korean classes,

which lasted about three hours.

Then I would come back home, eat lunch,

and start work at 2 pm
and finish at 10 pm.

This was my schedule for about 10 months.

All because I wanted to reach my students,

I wanted to learn a language

just like they were learning a language.

But what happened is, as I was studying,

I began to understand how to transition

from a beginner to an
intermediate learner,

and then from an intermediate

to an advanced learner.

And I decided to take what I was learning

to my students, to my intermediate,

advanced students, and I wanted

to teach them what I had learned,

the principles and the concepts.

So I started teaching
them how to give a speech,

how to develop and organize your ideas,

how to speak English with confidence,

how to make long sentences, and so many

other things that were not taught

in the class before that.

And something amazing happened.

My students began to improve very quickly.

It was like a light bulb went off

in their head, and their speech

and their way of thinking in English

improved rapidly.

So, then I started
thinking a little bit more.

If my students at my classroom

were improving so much,

how about starting a YouTube channel

where I can help even more students?

So I started Speak English With Tiffani.

Now, initially my plan was only

to help Korean students.

But what I realized was
that Indian students,

Vietnamese students, Japanese students,

all of these students
from around the world

started to watch my YouTube channel,

and they were learning the same concepts,

and they were improving their English.

So, in 2018, I left Korea.

I moved back to America and decided

to continue teaching English online

to help ESL students across the world.

So what’s my goal?

Why did I do it?

Why did I leave NASA to teach English,

and why am I still doing it?

Here’s the reason.

I want to help one million students.

That’s my goal.

I’m Teacher Tiffani.

If you haven’t received your free

Speak English Ebook yet,

go to SpeakEnglishWithTiffani.com/ebook
right now.

I know that this ebook will help you

improve your English and also help you

understand more of the expressions

that native English speakers use.

And remember you can also watch

my next English video lesson

on the left by clicking it.

If you ever need help,

remember you can also email me

at [email protected].

I want to help you speak English

and enjoy doing it.

  • [蒂法尼] 嘿!

我的名字是蒂法尼老师

,我想告诉你一些事情。

我曾经为美国宇航局工作。

是的,没错。

美国国家航空航天局。

但是有一天我辞职了,我

决定成为一名英语老师。

今天我想告诉你我的故事。

欢迎与 Tiffani 一起说英语。

我是蒂法尼老师。

让我们开始吧。

这一切都始于 2000 年。

那是我上大学的那一年

,我有两个专业。

我的第一个专业是计算机科学,

因为我喜欢计算机

,我的第二个专业是商业艺术,

因为我一直
而且我仍然热爱艺术。

2004年,我毕业了。

这是一个伟大的四年,但

现在是时候在生活中向前迈进了。

毕业后接到一个电话。

这导致了一次采访。

面试很棒

,因为面试很棒,

你猜对了,我在 NASA 找到了一份工作。

一切都很棒。

我在 NASA 的工作是一名网络开发人员。

为 NASA 的不同部门设计了多个网站。

太棒了。

我参与了多个网站的
规划、开发

和维护。

我有一个了不起的老板,他

非常尊重他的员工

,我也有很棒的同事。

所以我

对我在 NASA 的时光有很多美好的回忆。

但是当我在那里工作时,

我开始
觉得缺少了一些东西。

你看,记住我是一名艺术家

,我想用我的

艺术直接帮助人们。

我试图弄清楚我的生活应该做什么的这段时间里,

我有一些朋友在韩国生活过,

有的住了几个月,有的住了几年,他们对

我的生活赞不绝口 韩国是。

所以我心想

也许我也应该去韩国。

所以,在 2009 年,这正是我所做的。

我坐了14小时的长途飞行

,去了韩国。

我在韩国的时间是

作为一名传教英语老师度过的。

我有很多学生,从商人

到女商人,医生,律师,

家庭主妇,全职妈妈。

这是惊人的!

我有成千上万的学生

,我爱他们所有人。

但是发生了一些事情。

你看,当我

和学生们在一起时,我开始注意到

他们学习的努力程度。

他们在学习英语语法、

英语表达、英语词汇、

英语发音和英语习语,

想到了一些东西。

这是纳尔逊·曼德拉的名言。

引用说:“如果你

用他理解的语言与一个人交谈,

”那会触动他的头脑。

“如果你用他的语言与他交谈,

“那会触动他的心。”

你看,我心里的想法是

我想真正真诚地接触我的学生

,我想

对他们的心说话,这意味着

我也必须开始学习。

就在那时我决定学习韩语,

韩语语法,表达方式,一切。

那时,这

就是我的日程安排。

我每天凌晨 4 点起床,

学习大约 4 个小时,

然后洗个澡,早上 9 点

我会去上我的韩语课,

大约持续了三个小时。

然后我会回到家,吃午饭

,下午 2 点开始工作,
晚上 10 点结束。

这是我大约 10 个月的日程安排。

这一切都是因为我想接触到我的学生,

我想学习一门语言

,就像他们学习一门语言一样。

但是发生的事情是,在我学习的过程中,

我开始了解如何

从初学者过渡到
中级学习者,

然后从中级学习者过渡

到高级学习者。

我决定把我学到的东西

带给我的学生,我的中级和

高级学生,我

想教他们我学到的东西

,原理和概念。

所以我开始教
他们如何演讲,

如何发展和组织你的想法,

如何自信地说英语,

如何造长句,以及许多

其他

在此之前课堂上没有教过的东西。

而令人惊奇的事情发生了。

我的学生开始进步很快。

就像

他们头脑中的一个灯泡熄灭了,

他们的英语语言和思维方式

迅速提高。

所以,然后我开始
考虑更多。

如果我课堂

上的学生进步如此之大,

那么开设一个 YouTube

频道如何帮助更多学生?

所以我开始和 Tiffani 说英语。

现在,最初我的计划

只是帮助韩国学生。

但我
意识到印度学生、

越南学生、日本学生,

所有这些
来自世界各地的学生都

开始观看我的 YouTube 频道

,他们正在学习相同的概念,

并且正在提高他们的英语水平。

所以,2018年,我离开了韩国。

我搬回美国并决定

继续在线教授英语,

以帮助世界各地的 ESL 学生。

那么我的目标是什么?

我为什么这样做?

为什么我离开 NASA 去教英语

,为什么我还在做这件事?

这就是原因。

我想帮助一百万学生。

这就是我的目标。

我是蒂法尼老师。

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