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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was a teacher and went to law school. Law is less stressful. Teaching was the emotional exhaustion of oral argument every day. (Public speaking)[/quote]

I was a lawyer and teach now.  Teaching is way less stressful.[/quote]

I worked with a guy who left a law job as ADA for large metropolitan area and he said being a teacher was more stressful. Granted it was his first year. But he was shocked at just how relentless the grind was. And that time really wasn’t your own. Need to go to the bathroom? Tough, you have lunch duty. Need a moment to reset for the next class? Nope you’re expected to stand in your doorway watching for student misbehavior. Need to take a sick day? Plan out how someone else will spend the day…Ugh, it’s easier to come in sick.

And no one will teach you classroom management skills. It really takes 3 years to figure out how you want to run a class and what works with your teaching style. Until then, the students smell weakness and take advantage of it every chance they get.

And if you teach a class that has state testing, forget taking detours about interesting topics based on your students interests or questions.

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