What did you bring with you when you left the profession?

I’m a former teacher, and the first time I logged on to Chambers in months, I got this notification:<br><br>r/teachers is restricted from users under 18 (NSFW?) without an account age of at least 30 days. <br><br>I wish this chamber had existed when I started teaching in 2016. I was the kid who started college at 16, got her secondary education teaching cert at 19, and her special education cert at 20, and was teaching full time at 20. <br><br>After being in the profession for 7 years, I left this past school year to find a job that paid enough to be able to rent an apartment. <br><br>I now work in recruiting for a software company and make triple what I made as a teacher.<br><br>The other day, I received these texts from a parent:<br><br>[Parent]: Hey! How have you been? <br><br>[Me]: I’ve been alright. The transition hasn’t been so hard for me, but I definitely miss the kids a lot. How have you and [former student] been?<br><br>[Parent]: Yeah, my youngest is doing well. I was going to ask you if you still had the whiteboard markers that we bought? We lost them when we moved and would like to get them back.<br><br>[Me]: Yeah, I have them, along with everything else you purchased for the classroom. <br><br>[Parent]: Oh wow. I didn’t realize it was that much. What did you do with it all? <br><br>[Me]: I took everything with me. Everything I purchased, everything you purchased, everything donated, everything from the supply drives, everything from the school supply closet, everything. It’s all in my garage. <br><br>[Parent]: That’s wild. I’m sorry you had to do that. <br><br>[Me]: It’s all material stuff. I took my teaching supplies, my winter stuff, my summer stuff, and my dog. That’s all I really needed. I’m not sure what the school is going to do for the next school year, but I’m not there to help figure it out. <br><br>I spent 7 years teaching, and when I left, I took every single thing I had (remember, this is a special education classroom, so a lot of the supplies were also materials for my students with sensory processing disorder, ADHD, autism, anxiety, etc.) <br><br>Did you bring anything with you when you left?