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[quote=Anonymous]Teaching is very difficult and your first few years are miserable. You are at the bottom of the pay scale. You are untenured and don't even have due process rights-you can be fired at any time, without cause. You don't have any lesson plans or materials from previous years, so the hours are terrible. 
In your first year, you can expect to spend roughly the same amount of time preparing for a lesson as you do delivering it/facilitating. That means if you spend 45 minutes on a science lesson, it will take you about 45 minutes to write the lesson plan and create the materials (a slideshow, worksheets, physical materials, etc.). Most teachers teach 5 or 6 lessons each day. That means you are spending between 225 and 270 minutes per day just preparing lessons. That's four and a half hours. You don't have time for this while at school, especially with bulletin boards, writing IEPs/holding meetings, administering assessments, managing the physical classroom, meetings, administrative duties like monitoring lunch/recess/bussing, making copies, managing data, and more! I'm not even going to talk about grading tests or papers because that's an even larger time suck. This means that even if you get home at 4:00, you can expect to work until 8:30, if you don't have to cook dinner, clean your house, eat, or care for any children. Does that sound appealing to anyone for $45k? I didn't think so. [/quote]

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