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Originally Posted by FlyWf
Teachers really are the nut low profession for FB newsfeed bombing. Lawyers post **** like "came into the office Sunday to wrap up some little stuff, got hit with an emergency allnighter. FML" when they want to whine, teachers are like "I HAVE TO WAKE UP IN THE MORNING". You're not special, teachers.
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I agree with this, but I really think its a product of a lot of people who have grown up expecting things to be handed to them with little to no effort.
I think I have a background that allows me some insight to this. My dad, sister, and uncle are all teachers. My aunt homeschools 4 kids. I tutored throughout college, took education classes (a huge joke, 3 of the easiest 5 classes I took), and interned full time one summer at a year round school before deciding that ultimately I like money to much to do anything with such a structured earning potential down the road.
I have never heard my sister complain about her job or hours. Yet, she has maintained a job working at a restaurant Friday and Saturday nights and usualy does about 10 hours of babysitting a weekend. She is also helping run the student council for no extra pay and helps coach soccer. My dad works every sporting event imaginable for his school, fills in for coaches who are out/suspended during games or practices, teaches drivers ed, and drives limos on the side. His only complaint is that the state is trying to make driver's ed non-mandatory and has cut the maximum hours he is ALLOWED to work. My uncle coaches football and works a third shift job for 2 nights a week. He only complains about how hard it is to keep the good athletes in class so they can play every game. I feel like all of them know what they got into and like the profession more than the alternatives which allows them to remain happy waking up every day. They all also found a solution to the money problem that seems to be the root of the issue for many of the teachers who seem to resent the profession.
I cannot even grab a drink with any of my friends (closer to acquantiances bc they're all girls that my good friends met in college) without hearing about how bad their week was and how many papers they have to grade. Forget it if a kid got sick in class or a fight broke out. The, "I have to wake up at X:XX so I can't YYY at 8 pm" is also one of the weakest excuses I hear. Guess what, the other people I'm out with all work too because none of us hang out with any non-professionals any more. Some (2) of these girls have even expressed to me that they had hoped to graduate and get married soon after so they didn't have to work and that they just plan to teach in the meantime since they haven't found a spouse. I have had to restrain myself and walk away because I feel that this is one of the professions where people like this are unlikely to succeed and unlikely to benefit their employer (in this case by being a quality teacher).
cliffs: somehow teaching became the profession for girls (I feel like guys default elsewhere, but I dont know where that is) that went to college but don't want to work. They are not shy of letting you know how bad it is because their frame of reference is the story they created in their head where they never have to hold a real job post-college.
Last edited by CalledDownLight; 09-13-2011 at 03:17 PM.