If you've ever been bored, stressed, or just plain old frustrated at your job, have you ever wondered, "What am I doing here?"
A lot of people are going into teaching as a second career.
The downturn in the economy and layoffs are also making people re-think their careers.
"A lot of people are displaced, so they're having to look at themselves and evaluate what they want to do with their life," said Beverly Wolery [Woolery], the director of the Educator Preparation Institute at Polk State College in Winter Haven.
In the last five years, EPI has gone from 60 to almost 400 students. It's one of two dozen places of its kind in the state where people with undergraduate degrees can earn their teaching certificates in about eight months.
Grayson O' Cain is one of them. He is determined to become a second grade teacher. But it's not easy to go back to school with a wife, two kids and a job where you work the overnight shift.
"It's something you have to make your mind up to," Grayson said.