Career, schmareer

As I sit in my tiny classroom inside the tiny school where I teach, I cannot help but wonder if this is destined to be my life.  I am unhappy, frustrated, and insecure about my abilities.  For the past few months, I have been pondering a possible career change, or possibly just a new position in a new place.  Whether I can find a similar job somewhere else remains to be seen and whether I can even be successful teaching high school English anywhere stays an enigma; but I feel I need to try.  I am not one accustomed to failing things in life.  I am not ashamed to say I am a super genius when it comes to grammar, spelling, punctuation, literature, and most things English-related.  I do not think this makes me conceited, because I can admit that is the only area of life in which my super genius powers reveal themselves.  Give me an algebraic equation and I will break out in hives faster than you can say, "Where's the pi?"  Ask me to name the elements in the periodic table and you are likely to be on the floor fanning me as I keel over from sheer terror.  But English, this I can do.  I am a former spelling bee champion and straight A student; one of my high school English teachers saved a research paper I did and showed it to every class she had until she retired as a shining example of what a research paper should be.  The problem I have is this:  Just because I am good at something doesn't mean I can effectively teach it to someone else.  I just can't figure out if it is the school where I teach (I won't even go into all the problems I have here), the age of the students (drama, drama, DRAMA!), or just plain teaching in general.  Recently I read a book where one of the main characters was a school counselor, and for the first time in a long while, my juices were flowing and I was excited about something job-related!  Excellent book, by the way; it deserves a post all its own.  Today I have been researching, googling, reading, and texting to get as much info as I can about how I can move into school counseling.  Because it is a lateral move, I feel I can slide in pretty effortlessly and I already have quite a bit of experience with middle and high school aged kids.  I am stoked about a possible career move after so long dreaming and wishing.  Here goes nothing!