to think that teachers are allowed to actually have a life

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Another post is getting on my nerves a bit - i hate the fact that because of our jobs (vocation whatever...) we have to be society's keepers and society's bitch. It truly pisses me off.

Gabygirl,I salute you,but festering wounds,arsey consultants and phlegm/vomit,and the ubiqitous targets/post registration education in practice,student teaching and research bring their own horrors too.

Public sector work,its shite,I mean,we do have to slave for that pension

publich sector work, at least you have a job and pension

gg - no but I have had a wheelchair rammed into me, pinning me up against a wall, chair thrown at me, had blood drawn from my arm by a patient to name a few , and that is without the verbal crap I took and still take day in day out!

And patients don't sit down when you tell them either, they generally fall over and break something and that is your fault too!

Yes I agree,maybe a bit of a flippant comment given current economic situation.

1.8 MIL unemployed !!!At least am not a labour politician!

gabyGirl that sounds like A&E or psych acute admissions on quiet day.you forgot irate companions/family

I once had a patient grab my arm so tight it left bruises.In his defence he was blotto on morphine and thought I was the steering wheel of the bus he was driving!

I heart teachers,though,it is a difficult job that I couldn't do!!!

and what do you say when the member of staff comes to you and says 'I just got splashed in the eye with c-diff diarrhoea'

And my shoes have a urinated on more than once!!

I think nursing is incredibly tough - lots of responsibility, 12 hour shifts, back breaking hard physical work, emotionally intense at times.

But while you do get abused occasionally, you're not subject to almost constant abuse and disrespect as part of your normal day to day working life. And I should imagine that, unlike many secondary school pupils, most of your patients don't go out of their way to obstruct your work (for example by deliberately sticking dirty fingers in their dressings or purposely not bothering to take their medication)so that 90% of the time you feel a gnawing sense of utter uselessness and frustration about what you're doing.

au contraire!it isn't a competition who takes the most shit.but sometimes it is constant gg

I will give you that, not constant abuse, but the other scenarios about interfering with dressings and not taking medication is quite regular. In addition as a nurse I do get a lot of job satisfaction. You must get some satisfaction/enjoyment from being a teacher - or I'm sure you would be in a loony bin!

I would rather nurse than teach!!!

both have their own positives and negatives!

I heart nurses. Not a job I could do. I would rather face my 30 'too cool for school kids '

Sorry - re: the 'constant abuse', my MIL was a staff nurse in one of the busiest A&E units in the country for 20 years, and I do appreciate that some parts of the health service are like a bad night in Baghdad - all the time!

My MIL loved it. She finally moved on after all those years because she was worried that she was going to end up killing someone - they were so short staffed that she felt like she was flying by the seat of her pants all day/night long.......

Oh but the stories she used to tell... the decapitated corpses in the backs of ambulances, people chucking shit around the waiting room, babies being born in corridors.....

me too!!

I teach nurses now, thats hard enough!

umm why are we comparing in the field stories of who has most gruelling job.it is subjective how it impacts on the individual

frankly it is all gruelling

no need to compare stories,i believe you

Wrinkly - I got out.... couldn't take it.

I now teach a health related topic to small groups of adults in the private sector, which I love and is quite well paid.

But I'm joining the NHS part-time in February as a maternity support worker.

Woohoo!

Can't wait to hurl myself into the fray.....

There are 5 of us starting and I'm really looking forward to supporting the community midwives, a cracking bunch of women who are buckling under the strain.........

I hope you enjoy it

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haha!

Have been catching up on the posts now

....did i (whoops - I - ) tell you all i am the best teacher that ever lived?

= ooo look at me with the 'i'rony

Sorry, left thread for a while so I could go on Facebook..... Oooooh, hark at me, a teacher on Facebook. Can you tell I work at a state school?!?

I honestly couldn't care if my dd's history teacher smoked in her spare time. I couldn't care if she drank alcohol either. I just wish that occasionally...just very occasionally...,during lesson time- she would get a fact right. That would be nice

oooh well i am on FB and teach at a private school dontcha know?

in one of my year 8 classes today we were doing a quiz about 20th century musical styles and i asked when was swing at the height of popularity and the children told me they were told in a colleagues lesson that it was in the 1950's....eeeeek...errr i think i may need to educate some of my colleagues on rock and roll

My doctor is over weight but a fabulous doctor. What do you think of that? Is it a similar thing to teacher smoking issue?