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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This was on my FaceBook feed a couple of weeks ago:

“I think teaching is the only job in which you have to work before you get to work so you have work to do at work. Then you have no time to do work at work, so you have to work after work to catch up on all the work you didn’t do while at work.”

Sums it up quite well for me. [/quote]

This sounds like the life of many professionals who sit in meetings all day.[/quote]

But are they really all day? Do you have to prep for and lead these meetings, or just sit in them? Can you multitask during them?

These are the distinctions that I think makes teaching quite different. Teaching is the equivalent of leading 6+ hours of meetings 5 days a week.  [/quote]

I have to prep for meetings, then lead the meetings, following up by summarizing the meetings.  I generally have 6 hours of meeting a day.  I also have to write reports that require analysis, and those reports are discussed in meetings.

I don't have a very special or odd job.[/quote]

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