Teaching- any other jobs that make you cry regularly?

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I quit teaching last year, after years in a negative, toxic environment, which I thought was my fault.
Most days, I cried on the way to work, at lunchtime in a cupboard or driving home. I now see that this was the culture rather than me. It took changing a 20 year career to see this.
Is there any other job out there that has staff regularly crying before/during/after work? It's so wrong!

Prison officer a weirdly conflicting job dealing with dangerous, violent, manipulative individuals. Sometimes having to sit through details of the crimes they have committed. Endless verbal and physical violence aimed at you but it is your job to keep them safe. On the flip side even though these people had committed crimes they also can be very broken and often hideously abused themselves. Sometimes good people have done a bad thing that completely has ruined their lives. I cried countless times sometimes in the car to unburdened myself of the stress before I went home

Social care. We get cr@p from everyone.

Social Worker for children

I can only speak of my personal experience (I know other jobs are hard too) but becoming a teacher was the worst decision I ever made. I’m so glad I’m out, and my hat goes off to anyone still doing it. I’ve been out nearly two years and I still have a big teaching hangover after years going in and out of feeing ok at my job, and being made to feel utterly incompetent. I got to the stage where I frightened myself with the overwhelming temptation to step in front of a car on way to work. Lowest point I think 😢

Fragile little snowflakes???

And mine too ❤️

When I was a ward sister. Too much pressure and emotional load.

Oh I find this so sad for the children 🥲 I know children can do well with boarding school, but I personally know two people who feel it had a negative impact on them mentally.

Foster care.

Low financial rates, high stress levels, violence towards foster carers, lack of resources to support traumatised young people. Young people can become adults with massive mental health issues again with little support.

Foster carers without support from social services. The system is in massive crisis.

You’ll have seen the reasons for the depression and low mood here. The sad answer is access - medical, pharmacy veterinary, nursing (and maybe others) have knowledge of and access to dangerous drugs.

Anyone reading this in that really dark place now please (try to) get help even just talking to someone

They have access to the drugs used to euthanise animals.

Mine too.

I’ve just left working in HR, you want to do the best for employees and the business whilst trying to remember you’re an employee too.

You get all the crap placed on your desk whilst the good stuff you do to help can’t be discussed because of confidentiality

@CommanderMariettaHay nothing wrong with parents advocating for their children and securing them the education that they need. Good on them. The parents are not the problem here. Your overpaid, useless bosses are. Local Authority salaries for the senior managers are outrageous, considering the levels of incompetence shown.

Some newsrooms. Not all. But some can be really, overtly nasty, and if you can’t “take it” you’re not tough enough to be a journalist. Lots of that crap when you’re just out of journalism college.

Midwife again , I retired the minute I reached 55 .

Sorry but I don't think this is relevant to the thread.
Nevertheless I'm curious how you knew this as a pupil?

I've found through work that 90% of people are pretty awful.

At no point did I blame parents for advocating for children. You do not know, what I experienced at the hands of so-called professionals as a child and young adult or what I deal with on a daily basis.

I started working in SEND to make a difference as a women who is actually has complex SEND that is neurological and physical in addition to partly being due to severe and significant child abuse. I have innate understanding of SEND. In addition to pushing through the barriers to actually gain access to education and at a significant financial cost to myself to put myself in a position to advocate for a fair equal and equitable education system.

Distribution, Recognition and Pluralism the principles of Social Justice does not mean you have a right to demand the LA Education department fund horse riding, gym membership, drumming lessons, private gaming courses this creates divides between children and young people without SEND and those with SEND. Thus creates a catalyst in societal perceptions of SEND being a privilege and this creates further divides in society. Similar to how the general population now believe that if you tick a disability box you have special privileges or only get opportunities due to your disability. As a result those professionals with SEND are working twice as hard to prove that they have the position on merit not box ticking.

A majority of caseworkers are already at breaking point under pressure from senior management without parental abuse on a daily basis. Honestly think you can do better, there are plenty of vacancies for caseworkers.

At no point did I blame parents for advocating for children. You do not know, what I experienced at the hands of so-called professionals as a child and young adult or what I deal with on a daily basis.

I started working in SEND to make a difference as a women who is actually has complex SEND that is neurological and physical in addition to partly being due to severe and significant child abuse. I have innate understanding of SEND. In addition to pushing through the barriers to actually gain access to education and at a significant financial cost to myself to put myself in a position to advocate for a fair equal and equitable education system.

Distribution, Recognition and Pluralism the principles of Social Justice does not mean you have a right to demand the LA Education department fund horse riding, gym membership, drumming lessons, private gaming courses this creates divides between children and young people without SEND and those with SEND. Thus creates a catalyst in societal perceptions of SEND being a privilege and this creates further divides in society. Similar to how the general population now believe that if you tick a disability box you have special privileges or only get opportunities due to your disability. As a result those professionals with SEND are working twice as hard to prove that they have the position on merit not box ticking.

A majority of caseworkers are already at breaking point under pressure from senior management without parental abuse on a daily basis. Honestly think you can do better, there are plenty of vacancies for caseworkers.

University lecturer - never cried, “it’s a tough world”, but I hid a lot, taught pleasurable subjects for fun to evening classes (proving to myself that I really had the teaching skills I loved and they were worth having), telling myself that I was really another person with a different and better life waiting for me (should I have sought help from a psychiatrist at this point? No, this was another survival strategy that worked), and in the early days of this particular contract, my skin started peeling off my hands and feet in an obvious nervous response. Generally speaking colleagues were supportive, that was a decisive factor in st saying with it. The peeling-skin thing stopped, callouses grew on my personality. The nicest, most supportive colleagues were promoted and became beasts. That’s life

Nursing for sure

Health Visiting. The safeguarding and child protection work is frightening, soul destroying and too much. Couple with most people thinking we are bloody pointless. If you don’t need a HV that is great actually. Frees up our time a bit to try to detect and protect the abused children.

Learning disabilities nurse