Teachers gave the best job in the world. Fact.

[Oakmaiden]

I mean, don't do it if you are afraid of hard work, or want to be rich. But absolutely the best job.

Ack. "have" not "gave". Now my thread title sounds vaguely rude...

Nah, I reckon (aside from the terrible salary) that Teaching Assistants have the best job!! All the best bits without the stress.

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I was sat in the office during a 'free' period last week listening to a group of year 8 murder sing the 12 days of Christmas in French. I must admit that it brought a huge smile to my face and made me remember why I do the job!

Love this post. I've been thinking of retraining as a primary school teacher for a few years now. I'm definitely not afraid of hard work and have no desire to be rich, sounds like it's the perfect job for me! A few of my friends are teachers and they say that the worst part of teaching is the parents, would you agree?

For me, the worst part of the job is not the parents, it's the marking! I adore the kids {secondary} and love my colleagues, the only part which gets me down is the marking.

If it suits you it's the best, if it doesn't, it isn't.

Sort of - but it's lovely when a parent appreciates work you have done. I phoned a parent once to tell him that his child was almost definitely going to get a c for English gcse and he practically cried. His son had autism and he had previously wept every day before school and clung to the car, his dad hasn't thought he would get any qualifications.

I agree - I love my job most of the time

I'm with cherrypez about the marking though, it's just so time consuming and often boring. I'm trying to train the kids to write me messages after their homework, just to make it a little more interesting, and of course so I know how easy they found it, etc.

Christmas is great, I must admit.

My favourite ever days were the last days of term though e.g sitting around with my class playing board games, and losing to them letting them beat me at Cluedo. And then waving bye bye.

Teaching is great then! :o.

Y6 end of year panto when they sing and act their hearts out - also pretty good.

It's the best job some days and the worst job other days. Don't become a teacher unless you really want to, if you just fall into it because of the holidays, or because you can't think of anything else to do, God help you.

YABU, midwives have the best job in the world :)

I'm an ex teacher. I loved it. We used to have a pantomime every year with teachers doing stupid stuff and it was lovely seeing the kids laughing at their stern old teachers singing/dancing to x, y or z which was popular. I'm now working for a conservation thung- I'm the person who does those live animal science presentations. THAT is the best job in the world. No marking, no parents, loads of happy children and thankyous, animals and a good salary.

Maybe it's great in the holidays?

It's not hard work that kills you though. It's the buereacacy, the changes-for-change-sake, the staff, the public perception, the pay cuts that mean you can't get a decent (not luxury) house to live in.
I've always thought being a doctor must be the best job, saving lives 'n all that.

No, it's fab! Carol concert this year was brilliant and after a term of rubbish news we finally got some good news on the last day of term. Love it

Bureaucracy!
Can I blame the toddler pooing on my knee?

It is absolutely my idea of hell. I am glad some love it though, and even more glad that my DCs teachers clearly love it and have a genuine fondness for the children they teach. stealth boast, DSs teacher often says she would like to take him home

I have done care work mostly, and am now a student nurse. Now that is the best job in the world. I get to save lives and stuff.

But MammaTJ the ones I want to take home are the ones with shit home lives, are you sure she's not sneakily insulting you? (I'm sure she's not, I think most teachers want to take nice well-behaved children home with them)

My DH is a teacher and loved his job. He is bloody exhausted by the holidays though and is usually ill for the first week. However, I have a much better job, as being a foster carer, I spend most of my life cuddling tiny babies and introducing them to new, adoring parents, or reuniting them with parents who have struggled :)

It is brill! But everything ItsIgginning says is true.

I think when we're a bit more financially stable (ha!) idols to have a part-time timetable (and therefore salary) spread over a full week so that I've actually got a chance of doing everything and doing it well. Because it's actually impossible to do everything a full time teacher is expected to do.

Idols? * I'd like

Doctors have the best job in the world (well, the bit I work in at least). I meet brave, wonderful, funny, lovely children and I know that I can hopefully save their lives. The worst bits are that often we can't. We have way too much bureaucracy too, I think the government just likes fucking up as many public sectors as possible. We get a better salary (but less holidays). And no OFSTED (it appears that our version is much better).

AntiJamDidi, that made me laugh. She has know DS since he was a baby, as we used to frequent the same toddler groups together. We are on first name terms and I am fairly sure she would be direct and tell me if she had any concerns, or report my arse to SS.

Ds did have a dip in behaviour earlier in the year, I think due to knowing the teacher well and feeling he could get away with a bit more. She blamed me going away to uni, which gave me the rage! I challenged that and asked if she would have said the same if it was Dad away during the week. Maybe she did think he needs a bit more mothering but he gets plenty and I think she sees that now.

I think my dc have the best teachers in the world. The 2 that are in school have had their own individual struggles and have had amazing teachers at two primary schools supporting them through them.

Ds1 wouldn't have the confidence he had now if it hadn't been for his pre school and the teacher he had last year. And dd this year has recently had a diagnosis of dyspraxis and ADHD and her teacher is amazing at working with her and she has kept her self esteem throughout I believe largely to a teacher she had for 2 years before the diagnosis.

I think teachers have a hard job and my dc are phenomenally lucky to have some teachers who are in the right job and helping support and shape them in a way I couldn't have done on my own.

I'm glad it made you laugh. I'm glad you challenged her about whether she'd make the same comments if a father is away int he week. I had similar comments from dd1's teacher when I started uni, and I was home every evening!