To think Primary School Teacher could be a great job?

This ^^

What good is anyone telling you the nice parts. You need to hear both the good and the bad to make an informed choice and the truth is the bad parts vastly outweigh the good bits.

I'm a primary teacher and I bloody love it! I find it more stressful than my previous corporate career though.

I’m afraid your hope to hear positive stories may be a vain one. The majority of teachers, I think, would say that the teaching part of it is fine and why they went into the profession. Unfortunately, these days, that’s just a small part of the job and is far outweighed by the dross that teachers have to deal with.

If you’ve looked at any recent threads, you can’t fail to notice that increasing expectations, increasingly poor behaviour and impossible demands, have turned it into a profession that people are leaving, not joining.

Asking only for positive stories is not going to give you the full picture. I could write pages of positive things about 30 years in teaching, but the fact that I have left should speak volumes.

Oh, it can be great, no denying. I used to love planning interesting and practical lessons, seeing children grasp concepts (literally, sometimes it's like you can see that light bulb ping on above their heads!), kids telling jokes, sitting and eating lunch with them, them being excited about life generally and all the things like that.

There are, though, a lot of negatives. Whether you avoid these to a lesser or greater extent depends on what SLT is like, how the MAT treats more experienced teachers, what the parents are like and lots of other things (mostly) beyond your control. Some have found the school that works for them but many have found the unrealistic demands are too much or they're pushed out for being more experienced and more expensive.

I still work in education but wild horses wouldn't get me back to mainstream primary again. Which is sad. Anyone thinking about it needs to spend some time in some schools, volunteer, speak to staff, see what it's like from the inside before deciding.

I think it's telling that governments are always trying to entice people into teaching, but have no interest in keeping people in beyond the initial year or three.

Why?
Are you considering it as a career?

I used to teach secondary and I still really miss actually teaching and lesson planning but the work load was insane and often I was spending time doing pointless paper work when I could have been doing things to help the students learn. It was very frustrating.

Teaching is potential an amazing career but thr demands are too high for the rewards.