I'm thinking of retraining as a teacher, and one of the things that puts me off the most is that I constantly hear teachers saying that the hours are grindingly long.
I get that the hours can eat up your evenings and weekends without extra pay.
But honestly I don't see how this is any worse than many other professions or fields, which carry the same expectation.
Being a grad student in an institute where 60-70 hour weeks were fairly common, while living off the smell of an oily rag and with no job security, was no picnic, and the postdocs had it worse. On the flip side, with academia, at least we had the freedom to pop in and out to attend to personal matters. (This was before I had kids).
Who has tried both, and how would you say they compare?
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Teachers who've had other demanding professional careers, how do they compare?
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LucySnoweOrBust · 12/06/2018 00:38
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