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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Oh please, I work sixty hour work weeks to prepare for my zoom meetings.  That's right, Saturdays and Sundays, not all day, but my evenings during the week are late and I can't remember the last time I didn't put in fifty hours to be at the top of my game.  The competition is harsh in my industry, but I love what I do.  I balance my family life and lack of sleep for the rewards of my work.  I am so incredibly sick of hearing about these poor f g teachers like they are matrys or something.  They chose their careers and clearly have the education to move to another career if their so unhappy with the work hours, as I could do the same.  If you don't like your work move on, I for one am not cheering on teachers when I have to provide additional resources to my DC just to have them learn basic math and grammar.  Why do I have to do this?  The teachers constantly complain about how difficult it is to fit everything in on the curriculum and freely suggest we provide the extra help if we feel it is needed.  JFC I would be fired if I talked about my job this way.  If you don't like teaching, quit, I don't want you in a classroom with my children and any other child if you do not enjoy your job.  [/quote]

You’d better be homeschooling then, as voluntarily putting your kids in the custody of those terrible, awful martyr teachers on a regular basis would make you a terrible parent.[/quote]

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