Is your personality suited to your job? I have been teaching Portuguese for many years, but I remember my first classes weren't good at all. I always was very shy, that kind of person who freaks out if has to speak out loud. I had already faked that I couldn't do things in order to not be the centre of attention in two competitions during my middle school. Afterwards, I had just given up to be anything close to a outspoken person. These characteristics have persisted with me for as much as I can remember in my live - and even now that I had to live abroad when I have to speak English. As a consequence, when I started to teach that time I thought that I would have had to develop myself another self, more communicative and extroverted. Of course, it didn't happen. It took a year to me to accustomed to the stage. At least in Brazil, unfortunately, we have big classes and we have to teach from 25 to almost 300 students at the same class, it depends on the grade or course. So, I was adjusting my personality for something that I wasn't used to, but at the same time, it was me! Those students were looking for the same things I had been searching before I became a teacher - they were scary because it's so hard to get into a great public university in Brazil, and many of them - like me in my time - couldn't go to college if it wasn't free. In other words, I had to become aware that I was there because I had lived the same situation than them, and I was there to help them to achieve their goals. Therefore, it's so magical to be teacher and so hard because teachers in many places have the same problem than Brazil, they usually get a low salary and bad work conditions. Even though I haven't leave my shyness behind, I have won myself and taken my strong analytic way to see things in advanced for my profession, and I have made changes systematically in order to take advantages of my characteristics and personality to get my students. What does this whole story mean? I strongly believe we can rediscover ourselves if you really want to achieve a goal. Nobody needs to suit personality for this because we are in constant change, and it makes us alive.