Went to college right out of high school to become an Early Childhood Educator (ECE). It started out as just a stepping stone but I ended up falling in love with it and did really well in school. This is of course a female dominated profession but that really never crossed my mind. All the staff would praise/compliment myself and my (still) really good buddy about how they need more men, they're so glad that we're still with the program, or even how easy it'll be for us to get jobs in the field.

My last placement was a toddler room placement. Which means 18 month until 2.5 years. This was my first time with this young and the teachers in the classroom really took a long while to warm up to me, unusual but they ended up loving me by the end. It actually resulted in me getting hired there right after graduation.

Luck though, was not on my side and within months of hire I was out of a job. The city I live in decided the city run daycares were no longer worth keeping so they closed them and sold to private owners. The city's daycares were all run under union and I was still one of the newest, with no chance to be reassigned. I received three awesome reference letters from my fellow teachers and I was off to find my own way.

Now to the point of this longer than I thought story. New job in a private daycare, starting as a "in fill" aka come in for 3 hours at the end of the day so full timers can go home. Whatever, dues need to be paid. Then a teacher in the preschool room gets pregnant. My shot and I took it, paid off and I took her position for the year. I knew of course I had no claim over her spot so I kept my ears open. Finally a toddler room position became available and I applied. They usually interview everyone who applies to room changes and the teacher's knew this was my only chance before I'd lose my full time so in good faith my beautiful co workers didn't even apply for it. They hired out of company. I found out before I was supposed to so when I was officially told I wasn't taken aback by it. I'll never forget what she told me. "Parents of younger children are more comfortable with women as teachers, we think you'd fit best in preschool or school age". So basically because I have a penis, apparently I'm unfit to teach and supervise younger age children.

I was the only male teacher in my daycare, and the only one that could speed though the playground tubes and actually keep up with the kids no matter where they went. So I said fuck them when they sent me back to fill in.

Tl;dr Consider myself a darn good daycare teacher. But because of my gender I was restricted to the age groups I could teach.

Last thing I promise and please feel free to disregard this request. Let's face it my grammar/ spelling is that of a grade school nose picker. Pointers?