Education Careers Before and After
| 2017 Q4 | story by Bob Luder, photos by Steven Hertzog
-George Eliot, Leading writer of the Victorian era
Education has always been considered a noble pursuit. Nelson Mandela called it, “the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
By extension, being an educator can be among the noblest of professions. Noah Musser is an educator after spending a decade at the beginning of his professional life as a journalist. Chris Bay started in education and was a well-known principal in Lawrence for more than a decade before changing gears and going into financial planning.
One moved toward teaching and education, one moved away from it. But, both Lawrence residents insist they always have been educators and always will be. Just because they work or have worked in professions outside the parameters of a school district doesn’t make it untrue.
“The best thing [about changing professions]was learning things about myself, how I’m wired,” Bay says. “And, I learned I love to teach. We [Bay and his partners] are an educational institution. We just get paid by a life insurance commission.”
Musser says, “When I was a journalist, I understood I was educating people. I never got to see if it stuck, but I was getting the truth out there. In school … you get to see if they get it.”
It was Musser’s legacy that he go into journalism. His father, Rick Musser, was a longtime journalism professor at the University of Kansas (KU). So, it only came naturally that Musser immersed himself in visual communications and journalism, spending 11 years at major metropolitan dailies in the Twin Cities in Minnesota and Kansas City, Missouri. But, when staff cuts and layoffs began to become the norm in that industry, Musser decided he didn’t want to wait to be the last man standing and moved toward a more stable career: teaching.
Bay also took a rather unconventional route to spending 13 years as principal of one of the top elementary schools in the city. But, when he found his job was leaving him with little energy for his own family, he decided it was time to step away and try something else. A series of chance meetings and associations led him to becoming an infinite banking coach.
– Kofi Annan, secretary-general of the United Nations, 1997-2006
“Changing careers seems impossible when you first contemplate it; but it’s totally possible,” Musser says. “If you embrace it, it’s definitely doable.
“You should never be afraid to reinvent yourself,” he continues.
“It never feels like work.”
Growing up as a teenager in Overland Park, Kansas, young Chris Bay entertained thoughts of being the next Frank Lloyd Wright more than the next great educator. After graduating from Shawnee Mission East High School, he enrolled at KU and pursued an education in architecture. He was three years into the five-year program when a summer job led to an epiphany.
“The summer between my junior and senior years, I was a summer counselor at Camp Kanakuk, near Branson [Missouri],” he says. “I found that I really enjoyed developing relationships with the young men there and investing in them.
“I’m very much a purpose-driven person,” he continues. “I didn’t have a clear picture of how I was going to change peoples’ lives in architecture.”
Bay transferred to Baker University, in Baldwin City, with the purpose of one day teaching in urban settings. Within two years, he earned his Bachelor of Science in education and quickly landed his first teaching job at Kennedy Elementary, in Lawrence. After three years there, he moved on to Grant Elementary, where he spent six years while beginning work on a master’s degree in education administration.
That’s when he was approached by a fellow teacher who mentioned an opening for a principal at Sunset Hill, an elementary school in Lawrence that, at the time, was in a state of disrepair.
“I remember asking her, ‘I’m 30 years old, no experience. Why would I apply for that job?’ ” Bay says. “For some reason, I did, and I got the job.”
Bay spent the next 13 years helping build Sunset Hill into one of the most highly regarded elementary schools in Lawrence, though he’s quick to point out he didn’t do so himself.
“It was at least five years until trusting relationships were formed,” he says. “I had a fantastic staff. As a team, we built Sunset to where people felt it was home.
“I’m very proud of my 13 years in that community,” he continues. “By the end of my time there, we had a list of people wanting to transfer there.”
Ah yes, the end. Bay thought at the time that he would spend the remainder of his working life in education. He’d been approached about other positions within the school district, but it had never felt right to leave.
During his tenure, Sunset started what was known as the Watchdogs, a program where fathers of students came to the school and volunteered service and leadership. It was that program that inevitably led to Bay’s departure from Sunset and the education industry.
“I developed relationships with a couple of the dads,” he says. “One day, I asked one how he managed personal business affairs. He brought up the infinite banking concept. I had already been doing [financial guru]Dave Ramsey’s plan for about seven years.”
Even on the Ramsay plan, Bay found there wasn’t enough disposable income to set aside for family vacations. He, his wife, Shawn, and their two daughters weren’t able to go out for dinner often.
And, while he loved his work at Sunset Hill, he says he found he had little energy left for his family when he got home in the evenings.
“That carrot was so far out on the horizon, it was really depressing,” he says.
He let the infinite banking concept sit for about two months until he asked another Watchdog parent about it and received the same answer. It worked. In the meantime, he read a book, “Becoming Your Own Banker,” by Nelson Nash. Another Watchdog parent recommended Bay connect with Mike Everett, a leading proponent of the concept who would become his business partner.
“Nine months later, I started IBC [Infinite Banking Concept],” Bay says. “Twenty-six months later, I paid off our home.
“This concept will change peoples’ lives. My daughters will never have to borrow a dollar from an institution,” he says.
Bay reluctantly resigned as principal at Sunset Hill after winter break in 2013 and has been holding seminars teaching the infinite banking concept for the last five years. He says he concentrates the bulk of his work over 2½ days during the week—Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Saturday mornings. A couple days are for preparations and behind-the-scenes work, and he leaves Fridays and Sundays free to spend time with his family.
“Friday mornings, my wife and I do dates,” he says. “We never got to do that before.”
Switching from a steady paycheck to an income that’s commission-based has taken some adjustment, he says. He and his family have had to learn how to budget. But …
“I love my work,” he says. “My office is in my house. I wish I would’ve known about this concept sooner.
“I would really recommend to anyone to spend time with the tools to help you do what you really want to do,” Bay explains. “Then, it never feels like work.”
“Don’t be afraid to reinvent yourself.”
Following the lead of his prominent journalism professor father, Noah Musser earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts in visual communications from KU in 1997. He moved to the snow belt for his first job as a graphic artist at the St. Paul Pioneer Press, in St. Paul, Minnesota, and a year later moved next door in the same position at the Star Tribune, in Minneapolis. After spending a year at the Universal Press Syndicate as a digital imaging specialist, he was able to move his family back to his hometown when he caught on at The Kansas City Star.
“I was basically a graphics reporter,” he says. “I was explaining stories to readers through graphic images. I loved what I did.”
Six years later, however, at the same time the U.S. economy was taking a sharp downturn, the burgeoning internet began changing the way people received news and information, and made life difficult for the print-news industry. Newspapers throughout the country, including The Star, began cutting staff to survive financially.
“Once people started getting laid off, I told myself I didn’t want to be the last person there,” Musser says.
While working at The Star, Musser moonlighted as an adjunct instructor at KU, teaching upper-level print and online design courses from 2002 to 2004. Once he left The Star, he decided the time was right to seek a graduate degree. After earning a master’s degree in math and a secondary math teaching license, he began student teaching in Eudora and also was a teaching assistant at KU, teaching multiple sections of college algebra.
Then, in 2011, in what almost seemed like kismet, a position opened at the Eudora-DeSoto Technical Education Center that suited Musser’s background perfectly. The school needed a teacher for its graphic design department.
“They were looking for someone who could work in Photoshop and tech design,” he says. “I had other offers to teach math, but I loved the art side of it. Students were curious about it. They were not wanting it to be over.”
Every year, Musser added classes to his workload. He took on photo journalism and became faculty advisor for the student newspaper.
“I have eight preps a day,” he says of the number of different setups he has for classes each and every day. “I get up at 5:15 every morning just to make the big push to get ready for every day. I’m not sure how I do it. If I ever left, they’d have to hire two people to do it.”
Musser learned from his days in journalism to not go into anything with preconceived notions, because when you get there, things will likely have changed. All he strives for, he says, is instilling in his students a sense of truth.
“I’m in year No. 6 now,” he says. “It’s been great.”
And, Musser has been great at his job, as documented by the awards he’s received. This year, he was named USD 491 Secondary Teacher of the Year. In 2014, he received a Kansas Cable Telecommunications Horizon Award and was awarded designation of “Honors” by the University of Kansas Master’s Degree committee. And, that’s just for his teaching and education honors. His journalism awards are too numerous to mention.
“I miss the way [journalism]was,” he says. “But, I know what we had years ago is gone. I miss the old days, but that doesn’t exist anymore. I’m definitely happier now.”
Like Bay, whom he has never met, Musser’s family is better off as well since switching careers. His two children, five and one in age at the time he switched careers, are now 12 and nine. He was able to spend more time caring for them when he was going back to school and now has his summers off, freeing up more family time.
Society can’t function without a good public-education system, so he says he feels he’s making a positive contribution in that regard.
“It’s forced me to put my own view of myself into perspective,” Musser says. “Now, I get to see a cross-section of society. I learned a lot about myself that way.
“There may be a time, when the kids get in college, when I need to earn more,” he says. “But, yeah, for now, I really love what I do and see myself doing it for awhile.”
228 Comments
https://stromectol1st.shop/# buy minocycline 100 mg online
indian pharmacies safe
paxlovid cost without insurance shop paxlovid price
http://paxlovid1st.shop/# paxlovid india
viagra without a doctor prescription walmart
paxlovid for sale paxlovid 1st paxlovid for sale
order Rybelsus: rybelsus – cheaper
paxlovid buy: paxlovid shop – paxlovid cost without insurance
why should I be shy to show what chat with cam girls live wasnt ashamed to create?
cheap plavix antiplatelet drug: check clopidogrel pro – Plavix 75 mg price
If you feel like getting to know my wild and crazy side, don’t let me stop you, give me a call and visit me on hot cam show right away. Can you imagine even more? Just let me know and you can add me to your favorites, then I will inform you regularly what’s new with me… But I don’t want to over-text you, so now it’s up to you
https://clopidogrel.pro/# buy clopidogrel online
how to overcome ed
cheap plavix antiplatelet drug clopidogrel cheap plavix antiplatelet drug
http://stromectol1st.shop/# ivermectin 6
Online medicine home delivery
http://stromectol1st.shop/# ivermectin 18mg
reputable indian online pharmacy
https://clopidogrel.pro/# buy Clopidogrel over the counter
top ed pills
29 февраля 1996 день недели, календарь 1999 года снится янтарь к чему женщине
рабия имя значение, имя рабия в исламе
издательство белый город каталог, белый город книга
2 кубков: значение, 2 кубков чувства мужчины
форум
cheaper rybelsus cost semaglutide
cheap plavix antiplatelet drug: Plavix 75 mg price – buy clopidogrel online
Cost of Plavix on Medicare: clopidogrel pro – plavix medication
order Rybelsus rybelsus rybelsus price
paxlovid india check this paxlovid covid
https://stromectol1st.shop/# order stromectol online
Online medicine order
cheap plavix antiplatelet drug: best price on generic – buy clopidogrel bisulfate
rybelsus price rybelsus price buy rybelsus
paxlovid covid buy here paxlovid buy
paxlovid pill: paxlovid price – paxlovid india
https://stromectol1st.shop/# minocycline capsule
buy medicines online in india
paxlovid cost without insurance paxlovid shop paxlovid generic
https://stromectol1st.shop/# minocycline pac
buy medicines online in india
purchase stromectol online best price shop stromectol canada
смерть таро для одиноких,
смерть таро что думает партнеры по
браку для овна карты таро значение
карты the star
скачать карты герои меча и магии 6 скачать люди родившиеся 19 ноября кто по знаку зодиака
https://1winindia.tech/# пин ап кз
пин ап кз
https://1winindia.tech/# пин ап
пинап кз
1xbet зеркало: 1xbet скачать – 1xbet официальный сайт
пин ап казино вход пин ап кз пинап
пин ап официальный сайт: пин ап официальный сайт – пин ап зеркало
pin up azerbaycan: pinup az – pin up azerbaycan
пин ап казино вход: пинап казино – пинап
casino oyunlar?: canl? casino siteleri – guvenilir casino siteleri
пин ап вход: пин ап зеркало – пин ап официальный сайт
https://1winbrasil.win/# pinup az
пин ап казино
пин ап зеркало пин ап официальный сайт пин ап официальный сайт
pin up 306: pinup az – pin up azerbaycan
pin up 306: pin up azerbaycan – pin up azerbaycan
pin up 306: pin up – pinup az
casino sitesi: dunyan?n en iyi casino siteleri – slot casino siteleri
пинап зеркало: пин ап вход – пин ап вход
pin up casino pin-up casino giris pin up 306
ооо гранд а.в. инн, база данных мвд рк поиск людей
kolesa вакансии, kolesa kz жас мамандар апталығының мақсаты, жас
мамандар апталығы ашылуы қазақстандағы шешендер,
шешен сөздер жинағы
https://1winindia.tech/# пин ап
пин ап казино вход
пинап зеркало: пин ап зеркало – пин ап официальный сайт
пинап зеркало: пин ап вход – пинап зеркало
пин ап кз: пинап – пинап
пин ап официальный сайт: пин ап официальный сайт – пин ап официальный сайт
1хбет: 1xbet – 1xbet официальный сайт
pin-up: pin up casino – pin-up casino giris
pin up pin up kz pin up
https://1winci.icu/# пинап зеркало
пинап казино
pin up 306: pin up 306 – pin-up
pin up: pin up casino – pin up casino
pin up: pin-up casino giris – pin up casino
пин ап: пин ап вход – пинап зеркало
https://1winindia.tech/# пинап казино
пинап казино
pin-up casino giris pin up azerbaycan pin-up
slot casino siteleri: casino siteleri – dunyan?n en iyi casino siteleri
cazino: guvenilir casino siteleri – casino sitesi
1xbet скачать: 1хбет – 1xbet
пин ап: пин ап – пинап зеркало
pin up casino: pin up 306 – pin-up casino giris
pin up: pin up – пин ап казино вход
1xbet официальный сайт: 1хставка – 1хставка
casino oyunlar?: casino siteleri – en iyi casino siteleri
pin up pin up 306 pin-up casino giris
пинап зеркало: пин ап вход – пин ап официальный сайт
пин ап кз: пин ап казино вход – пин ап казино вход
pin-up casino giris: pin up azerbaycan – pin up
casino siteleri: guvenilir casino siteleri – casino sitesi
пин ап: пин ап зеркало – пин ап вход
http://1winrussia.online/# 1xbet
пинап
1хбет: 1хбет – 1xbet зеркало
pin-up: pin-up – pin up
https://1winrussia.online/# 1xbet
пин ап
пинап зеркало: пинап зеркало – пин ап официальный сайт
Why people still use to read news papers when in this technological globe all is available on net?
casino siteleri canl? casino siteleri casino siteleri
pin-up casino giris: pin-up – pin up casino
dunyan?n en iyi casino siteleri: canl? casino siteleri – en iyi casino siteleri
пин ап казино пин ап кз пин ап кз
пин ап кз: пинап казино – пинап
https://1wintr.fun/# casino siteleri
пин ап казино
пин ап казино: пин ап – пин ап кз
пин ап: пин ап вход – пин ап зеркало
slot casino siteleri: h?zl? casino – dunyan?n en iyi casino siteleri
pin-up casino giris pin up pin up
пин ап вход пин ап зеркало пинап зеркало
en iyi casino siteleri: canl? casino siteleri – canl? casino
http://1winci.icu/# пин ап официальный сайт
пин ап казино вход
1хставка: 1xbet скачать – 1xbet официальный сайт
pin up azerbaycan: pin up casino – pin-up
пин ап: пинап казино – пинап казино
pin up azerbaycan: pin up casino – pin-up
http://1winci.icu/# пинап зеркало
пинап
пинап зеркало: пин ап – пин ап вход
1xbet скачать: 1хбет – 1xbet зеркало
1хставка: 1xbet официальный сайт – 1xbet скачать
casino oyunlar? canl? casino dunyan?n en iyi casino siteleri
https://1wintr.fun/# casino sitesi
пин ап
mexico drug stores pharmacies: mexico pharmacies prescription drugs – buying prescription drugs in mexico
best male enhancement: ed medicine – causes of ed
pharmacies in mexico that ship to usa п»їbest mexican online pharmacies medication from mexico pharmacy
http://drugs1st.store/# buy prescription drugs without doctor
Online medicine order india pharmacy mail order mail order pharmacy india
https://drugs1st.store/# erectional dysfunction
india pharmacy mail order: Online medicine order – best india pharmacy
best online pharmacies in mexico: reputable mexican pharmacies online – mexican mail order pharmacies
https://indianpharm1st.com/# reputable indian online pharmacy
https://mexicanpharm1st.com/# mexican mail order pharmacies
medicine in mexico pharmacies: medicine in mexico pharmacies – buying from online mexican pharmacy
buy ed pills online: erection pills viagra online – canadian drugstore online
indian pharmacy paypal reputable indian pharmacies Online medicine home delivery
http://indianpharm1st.com/# п»їlegitimate online pharmacies india
https://mexicanpharm1st.com/# mexico drug stores pharmacies
mexican rx online: reputable mexican pharmacies online – mexico pharmacies prescription drugs
https://drugs1st.store/# drug medication
http://drugs1st.store/# best ed treatment
https://indianpharm1st.com/# Online medicine order
https://drugs1st.store/# canada ed drugs
https://indianpharm1st.com/# top online pharmacy india
https://indianpharm1st.com/# reputable indian online pharmacy
пины: пин ап казино онлайн – pin up kz
пин ап казино: pin up kz – пины
http://sweetbonanzatr.pro/# sweet bonanza
pin up casino
https://pinup-az.bid/# pinup-az bid
pin up casino
https://pinupzerkalo.fun/# pinco
pin-up casino giris pin up azerbaycan pinup az
https://pinup-az.bid/# pinup
pin up azerbaycan: pin up 306 – pinup az
Пин Ап Казахстан: пины – Пин Ап Казино Официальный Сайт
https://sweetbonanzatr.pro/# sweet bonanza nas?l oynan?r
pin up win
http://sweetbonanzatr.pro/# sweet bonanza oyna
пин ап вход Официальный Сайт пин ап
sweetbonanzatrpro: sweet bonanza – sweet bonanza nas?l oynan?r
pinup-az bid: pin up azerbaycan – pin up 306
https://pinup-az.bid/# pin-up casino giris
pin up zerkalo
pinco пин ап вход пин ап
https://sweetbonanzatr.pro/# sweet bonanza tr
pinup bet and casino
http://sweetbonanzatr.pro/# sweet bonanza nas?l oynan?r
пин ап: пинко – pinco
sweetbonanzatrpro: sweetbonanzatr.pro – sweet bonanza
sweet bonanza: sweet bonanza tr – sweet bonanza tr
Пин Ап Казино Официальный Сайт: pin up kz – pin up kz
sweetbonanzatr.pro: sweetbonanzatrpro – sweet bonanza
сонник обнимать теленка сонник родила знакомая не такой классный
сон приснился
сонник толкование снов река мутная к чему снится
бывший муж целует меня
sweetbonanzatr.pro: sweet bonanza nas?l oynan?r – sweet bonanza
http://pinupzerkalo.fun/# пинап казино
https://pinupzerkalo.fun/# pinco
pin up win
http://pinup-az.bid/# pin-up casino giris
pin up zerkalo
https://pinup-az.bid/# pin up
pin up 306 pin up casino pinup az
pinup-az bid: pinup az – pin-up casino giris
sweet bonanza: sweet bonanza – sweet bonanza
pin up casino: pin up – pinup-az bid
pin-up: pin up azerbaycan – pinup
pin-up: pin up azerbaycan – pinup-az bid
пин ап: пинап казино – пинко
http://pinupzerkalo.fun/# Официальный Сайт
pinup bet and casino
https://pinupzerkalo.fun/# пинко
pin up win
Пин Ап Казино Официальный Сайт Пин Ап Казино Официальный Сайт пинап казино
пин ап кз: пины – Пин Ап Казахстан
sweetbonanzatr.pro: sweetbonanzatr.pro – sweet bonanza
https://sweetbonanzatr.pro/# sweetbonanzatrpro
пинап казино pinco пин ап казино
пинап: пинап – Пин Ап Казино Официальный Сайт
пин ап казино: пин ап кз – пин ап казино
http://pinup-az.bid/# pin-up
pin up win
https://biznes-fabrika.kz/# пин ап 634
pin up zerkalo
pin up azerbaycan: pinup az – pinup-az bid
pinup az: pinup-az bid – pin up casino
http://biznes-fabrika.kz/# пинап
Пин Ап Казахстан пины пинап
http://pinup-az.bid/# pin-up
pin up zerkalo
https://pinup-az.bid/# pin up azerbaycan
pin up zerkalo
pinco pin up zerkalo пинко
sweet bonanza: sweet bonanza – sweet bonanza oyna
sweet bonanza: sweetbonanzatrpro – sweet bonanza oyna
pin up kz: пинап казино – pin up kz
sweet bonanza oyna: sweet bonanza – sweet bonanza
pinup: pin up casino – pinup-az bid
http://pinupzerkalo.fun/# Пин Ап Казино Официальный Сайт в России
pin up zerkalo
https://pinupzerkalo.fun/# pin up zerkalo
pin up zerkalo
http://pinup-az.bid/# pinup
пин ап 634: Пин Ап Казино Официальный Сайт – пинап казино
пин ап казино пин ап кз пин ап казино онлайн
https://semaglutide.ink/# Rybelsus
https://gabapentin1st.pro/# buy gabapentin
Regenerative Medicine: Urgent Specialists – semaglutide
buy amoxil online: Compare Prices – amoxil online
See risks: see a healthcare provider – Pills Paxlovid
Visit store: See risks – paxlovid price
cheapest paxlovid: paxlovid1st – paxlovid store
http://amoxil1st.shop/# amoxil online
Neurontin online: Neurontin online – compare the best prices
see a healthcare provider: see a healthcare provider – See risks
http://semaglutide.ink/# semaglutide online
https://gabapentin1st.pro/# Care provides
https://stromectol1st.store/# cheapest
licensed gabapentin: same-day delivery – licensed gabapentin
Rybelsus: Specialists – Rybelsus
See risks: paxlovid store – paxlovid1st
same-day delivery: Care provides – Neurontin online
Urgent Specialists: semaglutide – Patient Portal
http://semaglutide.ink/# rybelsus price
gabapentin pro: licensed gabapentin – licensed gabapentin
http://paxlovid1st.store/# cheapest paxlovid
stromectol online: stromectol best price – find bets price
licensed gabapentin: licensed gabapentin – licensed gabapentin
stromectol online: find bets price – stromectol delivery usa
stromectol: stromectol online – stromectol
https://stromectol1st.store/# stromectol
shop: top-rated pills – Compare Prices
аптечный дом в махачкале график работы заработок на доходных сайтах отзывы реальных людей как получить донат бесплатно
в роблокс заработать на фрилансе без опыта новичку
involves multisystem: Care provides – same-day delivery
работа дистанционно на компанию осиповичи подработка для женщин какие работы можно
выполнять на дому подработка самозанятые приложение
http://semaglutide.ink/# rybelsus price
https://stromectol1st.store/# find bets price
amoxil price: buy amoxil online – top-rated pills
good price: stromectol store – stromectol
medication from mexico pharmacy: mexico pharmacy – best online pharmacies in mexico
best india pharmacy: Indian pharmacy online – pharmacy website india