lil game of LIFE

So does anyone remember that board game life? How easy would it be if life was really like that, it was all a matter of rolling some dice and drawing some cards, and having it all laid out for you, your job, your house, how many kids you have, how much money you earn... oh how easy ..

The reason I bring it up is because although I have two and a half years until I get my BA, another for my MAT, I have been thinking a lot about where I wanna go when I graduate. I want to really do all that I can while I am still young. I want to live in Manhattan, I want to live in Europe, I want to do everything. I was looking into Teach for America, and I was thinking that I really want to do it. Teach for America is a two-year contract (kind of like the Peach Corps) under which I would be placed in a urban or rural school with a large achievement gap. My goal I this job would be to give underserved children an equal opportunity at an education. I was doing more research in this position and some of the bad reviews I heard.

I'm worried that it will negatively affect me as a teacher in the sense that I won't be teaching in this type of situation for the long haul, so I am afraid it will completely turn me against teaching, then what? Teaching is what I have wanted to do my whole life.

I guess all I need to worry about now is finishing school and getting the best grades that I can.

I am also torn with something completely unrelated to my future career plans. I am unsure of whether or not to do Summer Staff this coming summer. I love working at any Young Life camp, really I enjoy it more than anything else I could be doing in the summer. The reason I am torn is because it is four weeks of serving the Lord, which is the best feeling ever, but the service is unpaid. I feel selfish letting that be the deciding factor, but I am paying for school and my apartment next year, so I feel like on one hand I could serve the Lord for four weeks and have a life changing month and on the other I could work at my jobs here in Roanoke and make like a thousand dollars? Hard pill to swallow I know, any suggestions/words of wisdom?

Oh the stresses of reality....