To feel the rage with “teacher tired” posts

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The season of teachers posting SM messages “no one knows tired like an end of term teacher/TA/dinner lady” is almost upon us.

I want to scream, what about the fuckers who work stupid hours all week and don’t get 6 weeks off in the summer, half term, two weeks Easter, two weeks at Christmas.

I wouldn’t be a teacher for all the tea in China but these people chose their career.

Grrr, actually don’t care if I’m BU.

I believe I mentioned my two friends who under their own admission are not Mensa material, I didn’t say ALL teachers were that way!

Well, brains aren’t very relevant to this.

As for the 7 days a week, bull shit!!

Ah, you're just a goady fucker then!

How on earth can you know what other people's workload is like? Do you claim to know the workload etc for all professions? Or just teaching?

When I was teaching full time, I took a job in a failing school. I used to go to bed at 1am and set my alarm again for 5am, just to meet the requirements and expectations. And that was on top of working across the full weekend. Of course, I stopped to feed my children etc but I didn't have hobbies or a night to myself and, quite often, the only night out a teacher will have is in the school holidays because there is always work to be done; something to be prepared. Always something to do.

Rainbowsandglitterbullshit
Do you think other professions don’t require you to go in early, stay late, miss lunch breaks?

I come from industry, I know exactly what other areas are like, how you can slope off and find "something to do" especially in sales, offices and management.
If you really want a hard life go and work on a factory floor, a call centre, or do night shifts for a couple of years then come back and moan.

As for the 7 days a week, bull shit!!

Its the same brand of "bull shit" that you and others are peddling, yet it seems that its OK for you to do it.

But hey, lets ignore the hypocrisy.

Everyone thinks their burden is the heaviest

And, as for intelligence, I have a first class degree, a Masters and I am Mensa material

I worked in a restaurant as a busser/waitress for a couple of years. That was fucking exhausting. But it was a different type of exhausting. Not mental at all, just physical. Teaching is particularly exhausting because you have to split your attention so many ways.

I think teachers get a really fair deal. Great holidays, sick pay, mat pay, pensions. Most of them earn more than me (finance professional) with the same amount of experience. Yet they seem to always have something to moan about...

HEY, OP, WHAT'S YOUR JOB?

I asked earlier but you didn't answer.

@BoneyBackJefferson so you think that any job other than teaching offers you opportunity to slope off and and find something to do!? Fuck me, I wish I had a job like that. I work with the general public in a front facing role in a high emotion industry! I have people yelling at me daily. Sloping off is not an option.

Totally agree, herculepoirot. In the school holidays, I have occasionally worked in my local pub behind the bar - just for the craic.

It is utterly exhausting! People in NMW jobs work really fucking hard and get little to no respect either but you're right, it's a different tiredness - the physical exhaustion is extreme but I have yet to lose the ability to form sentences after a 6 hour shift that doesn't finish until 1am!

And you do get to go home to bed afterwards!

They are in short supply. Tells you something about the working conditions.

@BoneyBackJefferson so you think that any job other than teaching offers you opportunity to slope off and and find something to do!?

No, but most graduate jobs do.

What on earth is a high emotion industry??

Sorry I missed the request for me to say what job I do.

Hopefully my last post explains.

nope.

@Piggywaspushed if you worked in it you’d know!!

Totally agree op.

I'm am fed up to the back teeth of the pity party for teachers.

Give me a fucking break

Front line NHS nurse, anyone?

Oh no, they don't get a mention.

I remember once in my last term of teaching, having fond memories about cleaning urinals.

To be honest OP, it could be a number of jobs : teaching included.

Front line NHS nurse, anyone?

Actually, I did say that A&E nurses are the only people I know who have similar work conditions. I don't know if it applies to all nurses, tbf, but I know that the A&E nurses I know work in similar conditions and it's shit for them too. Especially when you consider what's at stake.

Well why ask then Piggy? It’s obvious it’s not teaching isn’t it????

OP you sound very angry

a high emotion industry

what?! Like a clown? Do you work in a circus?

I asked because you said you'd made it clear. I then said you hadn't. You said your follow up post made it clear. It didn't. HTH.

Yes I’m part time trapeze and part time clown. The big shoes give me a great deal of stress.