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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Starr planning your exit. Figure out where you could work and start applying. Give yourself a year or two as a deadline to leave and do it. Focusing on this and working on this goal on your spare time will lift your spirits. You can think, "I'll be out of here eventually or soon" when faced with something or someone difficult.Take time off and don't devote all your energy to this job. Detach emotionally and care less because you know you will be leaving. [/quote]

This is probably a good idea whether you stay or go, only because it will force you to think concretely.  I have a job that I find mentally draining but whenever it think about concrete alternatives (including the risk of being the junior person and more subject to layoff as a result), I just don’t think the grass is actually greener.  It’s worth the time to really think about your options and investigate them.  You may decide you have much better motions and leave.  Or you may decide that your teaching job is actually pretty good compared to the alternatives and you will have a better outlook.  What is NOT worth doing is thinking “oh I should have done something differently 15 years ago” — that is just a pointless energy suck.  Own the deciiions you made in the past and then decide what your best decisions are going forward.[/quote]

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