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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Teachers have it hard and I really appreciate all they do and don’t envy them.  But not everything is sunshine and rainbows in other jobs.  I use to tell friends the part of my day that saved my sanity was my 50min drive home where I could exist in complete silence between my corporate job and walking into Mom/Wife mode when I got home(and occasionally work would try to interrupt that).

I had to do real reflection on creating boundaries and determining what was most important on any given day.  As they say, when you retire/die your inbox will still be full.[/quote]

Yep. All jobs have upsides and downsides.

I worked for the feds and had some cool experiences, but they also psychologically tortured me. It took me about 2 years to recover from it, and in some ways I’m still not over it. What they did to me gave me nightmares and resulted in me going on anxiety meds.
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You left your abusive job. That’s what many of us are now doing within education. The turnover is HUGE. 3/4 my department has quit in the past 3 years, and the replacements aren’t lasting more than a year. Those of us who have soldiered on are all looking for an out, even those who stand to lose a ton by giving up pensions.

When teachers say it’s bad, please believe us. We often hear “everybody has it bad,” but we know that’s not true. We all have former colleagues telling us how great their new positions are. We all have husbands and wives who work less and make a lot more.

If you once had it bad, then perhaps you can sympathize with the modern teacher.[/quote]

Maybe we need to lose more teachers before mcps will do anything about it.  [/quote]

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