I don't think this is a teacher bashing post though.
I do think teachers have a tendency (tbh mostly on MN) to act like their job is harder than anyone else's.
Both my parents are teachers, and have been for nearly 40 years now. Their job is hard, and I certainly know people who's jobs are a lot easier. However I also know people whose jobs are harder or equally as tough, and I do think teachers can have the blinkers on a bit.
Comments like "I got to go for a wee at 3.20 for the first time" regular occurrence in my job as well as many others
"You can never switch off" again any patient, person to person based role is the same.
"We work in the evenings" again lots of jobs work in the evenings.
I'm not saying teachers dont work hard, but some teachers I think have a Lack of insight into other people's lives, and how hard they might work.
Even posts on here saying "you don't understand how draining it is" actually I think I do.
My mum was a TA in a failing primary for a while when we were little, and that was really rough for her, she worked incredibly hard. Funnily the people who moaned the most were the ones doing the least work! Where she and one or two others were picking up the slack for other members of staff, who would say they'd been working till 8pm last night and would turn up and exect my mum to cover their lessons with no plan, no marking and my mum would think where? I think she worked hardest when she was a TA not when she was a teacher!
Im not saying teachers don't work hard, but sometimes sm posts like this bring out the rage in me!