Re: Update: I STILL don't like teaching

missy

Posted on 11/30/11

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On 11/30/11, Ret 2 Go wrote:

Yes, finish the year. Jobs are hard to find. Agree, reduce stress
by taking very little home. It can really burn you out fast. If
your not staying after this year, there is no need to load
yourself down with extra work.
> You've been given some good advice. In my opinion, I would
> finish the school year. The first year is ALWAYS the hardest,
> but in the mean time also evaluate what your next occupation
> will be. Finish the year, but don't burn bridges because you
> never know which curveball life will throw at you. Look at me
> for example. I didn't seek to be a teacher, yet here I am
> nearly 12 years later teaching. You don't have to be like me,
> but I would at least finish the school year and draw a strong
> separate line between work and home by NOT TAKING ANY SCHOOL
> WORK HOME. Good luck!
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> On 11/27/11, Decisions, decisions wrote:
>> For those of you who check this board often, you may
> remember someone having a post titled "I don't like teaching"
> back in late September. Well, it is me again. I STILL don't
> like teaching. I am just not happy! I don't enjoy my weekends
> because I spend the whole time dreading the fact I have to go
> back on Monday. My system had a four day weekend/fall break
> back in October and I didn't enjoy that. And just this past
> week, we were out an entire week for Thanksgiving and it flew
> by and needless to say I didn't really enjoy it because I knew
> I would have to go back on Monday. So Christmas break is will
> be here in three weeks and I am seriously considering putting
> in my two weeks notice THIS week. I just can't take it
> anymore. I've thought long and hard about this and I just
> don't think teaching is for me. Even if I had system change, I
> just don't think teaching is for me. So I am just want some
> feedback on quitting in the middle of the school year. Have
> you done it? Do you know someone that has done it? How did you
> or that person go about doing it?

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