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[quote=Anonymous]I should have left teaching. It was always an uneasy fit. I am bright and creative and used to have lots of energy, but teaching for harder and harder as students grew more difficult and less motivated, parents more demanding (and writing emails at all hours) and admin kept adding more to our plates every year. Classroom discipline was always my weak spot. If I spent every waking minute on planning, grading, working on the class website, collaborating, corresponding, working on fresh materials, etc., then I felt pretty good about my teaching but also felt exhausted and didn't have energy for my own family. Pay was so low compared to everyone else I knew. Eventually I tried shifting to what so hoped would be less stressful teaching positions but they were always as stressful and just paid less. After about 25 years of teaching, I was working harder than ever and mail by an absurdly low salary at a small private school. $36,000! And I had a long and stressful commute as well. There were joys. I have other family members who have done better at striking the right balance and better at classroom management. I don't know what I might have done instead of teaching. I didn't want to tutor. I didn't want most other jobs. Maybe a different kind of teaching like music or environmental ed? Maybe developing educational resources? I don't know... but I am happily retired now![/quote]
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