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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It depends on what you're expecting and where you've been.

I lost my (corporate) job with the financial crisis in 2009.  Decided I wanted to do something more rewarding and went back to school and became a teacher.  Even on my worst day (problems with students, parents, progress reports, etc), I still get to leave work by 3:45 and I get Spring break soon :)  Oh, and working with kids is indeed rewarding!

So my point is, if you have perspective (which I think I did) with which you can fairly evaluate teaching as a professional against other sorts of professions...that may help make you appreciate teaching more despite it's negatives.  I know people who are career educators who have never done anything else and they are miserable :([/quote]

I think there is a lot of truth to this, and it applies to other professions too.  Having private sector experience gave me a lot more perspective than my career civil servant colleagues who thought that the private sector was all unicorns and rainbows in terms of perks, while ignoring the other costs.

Some of the happiest teachers I know are career switchers.  Also, given that it is a female-dominated profession, if women haven't worked in other sectors ever, and are often working for male principals (realize that happens less and less these days, but still not abnormal), there is tendency to take on a lot of the administrative b.s., and not speak truth to power or know what to let go and honestly just ignore.  I also think women are more perfectionist than men, and it pervades the work ethic in teaching at times to a fault.  Still, the lack of respect for the career is daunting, wrong and damaging to society.  Teachers deserve better, no doubt.[/quote]

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