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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Imagine you had to run a meeting 6-7 hours a day. You had to lead the meeting--agenda, content, presentations, discussions, work output, materials, everything. During that meeting, you can't check email or make a phone call. And in between the 6-7 hour meeting, you have smaller 20-1 hour meetings.

Imagine 25 of the 30 participants do not want to be there and don't have the ability to pay attention or follow directions. And you have to keep them on track.

Imagine you had to give immediate feedback/evaluations from today's meeting to every participant.

Imagine after running that meeting, you have to plan and prepare for tomorrow's 6-7 hour meeting.

Imagine if your participants fail to perform or have substandard work product, you are blamed.

Imagine never having an off day. Never spending a day just dealing with the little things.

Imagine it keeps going, day after day. It's exhausting to have to plan and manage every minute of every day for 30-150 participants.

I used to be a teacher. I miss it every day. But I'd never go back. The daily grind with no support staff to handle things was just too much. If I got a secretary, Id totally go back.

Until you've done it, you just don't understand. [/quote]

Amen Amen Amen -former teacher[/quote]

I love teachers, but this is just so dramatic. I understand that talking in such extremes might be effective with your students, but it's less successful when you're talking to fellow adults who also have to pay mortgages and show up every single day to their jobs, etc. etc.

I'm not diminishing your work, I just think y'all need to rework your talking points because these make you look really out of touch with the rest of the workforce. A lot of what you list is comparable to other jobs, especially being held accountable when others drop the ball. It's one of the consequences of leadership. [/quote]

Former teacher now biglaw attorney. Yeah you are so, so wrong about all of this. I agree with the original PP. [/quote]

+1. My school has a brand new teacher who was a corporate trainer and figured her skills would transfer to elementary school. I think she wanted to be on the same break schedule as her own kids. It is a disaster. She can't get over all of the things listed above. She's getting a lot of support, but gets so far behind because she's used to having so much time to plan and practice her trainings. I guess she didn't realize she'd be expected to give multiple new "trainings" per day as a teacher with incredibly limited time to plan and prepare them? She also can't handle the kids who aren't listening with rapt attention at all times. She thinks they just should listen to what she's saying and be interested in it because she spent time planning it.  Again, it's one thing to think you understand what it will be like while you're in school or even during your student teaching, but to take off that life vest and get thrown into the fire is a totally different experience. It's pretty much sink or swim, and it takes a long time to learn how to swim. [/quote]

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