The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of preservice teacher self-efficacy expectations, emotional intelligence,expectations, and satisfaction with expectations of future work environment on their commitment to enter the teaching profession. The results initially suggest that preservice teachers’ personal and environmental expectations play an important role in their motivation to continue in the teacher education program and enter the teaching profession. The results also suggest that preservice teacher expectations influence their levels of satisfaction, which can be detrimental if perceived as unfavorable. As PST perceptions of the teaching profession increase in favorability, satisfaction also increases. For example, when PSTs perceived higher levels of collaboration with colleagues and higher levels of autonomy in the classroom, they also exhibited increased levels of satisfaction. On the other hand, when PSTs perceived their future work environment as less than ideal (e.g., the discrepancy between deserved pay and expected pay) they exhibited lower levels of satisfaction. While PSTs might not work in the school every day, results suggest that work environment factors significantly influenced PSTs’ perceptions of satisfaction similar to the way they influence satisfaction in inservice teachers (Buchanan, 2009; Hong, 2010; Macdonald, 1999).