I enjoy my job for the most part. It can be exceptionally challenging and stressful at times. You are asked to do so much at one time, remember so much, plan so much, analyze so much, and communicate clearly with a multitude of learners of varying backgrounds, language levels, learning disabilities, and all social economic backgrounds.
Then, you go out and coach a sport for 2 – 3 hours. Oftentimes you give up your Saturday’s, evenings, and afternoons for school related activities. It isn’t the big arguments, conflicts and what not that get you, it is the slow burn of being on alert 100% of the time. It is a low grade stress that gets to you.
That being said though, the personal rewards are immense. When all is well, you feel like you are hardly working at all, you are just hanging out with your 170 or so teenage friends each day. As you grow older you see your students around town, working, carting children of their own around Sam’s Club, or read about them in newspapers.
Is it worth it? I think so, but teaching is certainly not for the faint of heart.
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