re: Teachers: Fighting Burnout?

I was being sarcastic.

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That’s not even $10 an hour if you’re making $37,000 a year. You can make more working less at Burger King.

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I hear ya, but I make a good bit more than that. However, my pay per hour as a coach is LESS than minimum wage. I coach in order to benefit the kids more so than to make money. That being said, this is my last year. Damp and cold nights, coupled with long hours, over a 22 year period tends to wear a man down.

Move to Texas.

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There is no doubt you make more money, but why shite on someone else for busting their arse. 55 is pretty much my norm (6:30 to 6:30 out of season).

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Because im not making threads about how I want to change jobs three weeks into the school year.

In fact, I haven't seen an Engineer complain about their job on this board outside of a PetE getting a pink slip during the downturn in the O&G Industry.

I don't see accountants, bitching and complaining.

I don't see lawyers complaining about their jobs.

Doctors (outside of BamaAtl) don't make frequent posts about how they hate their jobs.

It's almost always the teacher demographic of this board complaining. I hate to break the news to you, everyone has to work hard, bust arse, deal with bullshite, and do it because they have too. They don't get ~2.5-3 months to either do something else or take off. They are constantly working. So please excuse me if I give a rats arse about the complaints in this thread.

If you don't like the profession. LEAVE.

Do you think I enjoy flying out once a month to Seattle / KC / Chi-Town / Jersey? The work is fun and rewarding but shite I like being home in DFW around friends.

tl:dr, Quit crying. shite or get off the pot.

I'm fresh out of LSU with a bio degree and a very high GPA. I thought about teaching for a while, but the kids today just resemble a different breed than those of the past (in a bad way). No respect for authority, no accountability, and no motivation. The iPhone culture changed these kids. I'm now looking into my other grad school options in the healthcare industry.

Ultimately, however, work is work, and no job is perfect. I just need to find something that makes a living and that I can stomach. I now know teaching isn't worth it for the pay. They should be paid more for all the BS they go through, and the day doesn't just end at 3. Teachers are sometimes forced to monitor after school activities along with grading, lesson planning, etc. It's a lot of work, but it's still an important job for the sake of this country. It's a broken system.