I've got the fear..!

[rennyrenoir]

Anyone else got the fear about next week? I am dreading the return to school! Due OFSTED any day too. The nightmares have already set in!

Would love to know if people with 'normal' jobs also have a feeling of impending doom.

And well done frankie I like your thinking.

The sad thing is I've just read about Clobber's broken ankle and wished it was me :(

Here's hoping for a snow day next week.

I have the fear too. The post about teaching robbing your life resonates strongly with me and makes me sad. For the first time in a decade if teaching DH has given me a list of jobs to apply for as he is sick of spending evenings and weekends watching me work.

I have recently changed jobs but have spent the commute to my previous school fantasising about injuring myself in order to get extra time off. this is too sad for words.

but have spent the commute to my previous school fantasising about injuring myself in order to get extra time off. sad this is too sad for words.

I spent an insomniac night last night wondering what I could do to myself that could give me some time off to think about where to go next. I decided after a long while that a broken ankle was probably the best thing. Jury service, sprained wrist, ice-skating injury and food poisoning were also considered. I hate feeling like this about the job that I'm supposed to be doing for the next 30 years.

Ooooh - snow day! What wouldn't I give for one of those :)

I have the fear, although not as badly as before September. We're fairly sure we'll get Ofsted in the summer, so I'll do big fear then (as well as facing my first year of getting a Year 6 class through SATs). I'm just glad it's January and not April!
Clobbered - nightmare about the ankle! Hope you're not in too much pain, and that you managed to get some Christmas festivities done before disaster struck!

I don't know what we do about this, but something has to change.

I'm good at my job, have a great relationship with students and get excellent results. I'm really well regarded. I've spend a fortnight looking at other jobs and trying to come up with a way out. I just don't think I can do this for much longer without going under either mentally or health-wise. The hours I do are unsustainable. My family is worried about me. My DH hates me teaching. It should not be like this.

I do the cover in our school and was dreading opening my email last night, so far only one person called in sick. Got the feeling it won't be a one day thing either. I have a list of teachers on a "watch" list for being wobbly. It grows every term.

When you say you do the cover-do you mean you organise supplies or you actually cover it yourself? The idea of a list of wobbly teachers is rather upsetting :(

Both Summer. When I write the job description for my successor, I'm going to put "psychic". Someone just has to look at me funny and I'm ringing the agencies.

Ha ha-at least it's a transferable skill!!

Go private! GO PRIVATE! For the first time at the end if a holiday since I started teaching, i slept well last night (the last night of the hols). It is glorious. Just by doing a third of the work I used to do in the state sector everybody thinks I'm amazing. Life is much pleasanter.

Not many jobs around here in the private sector - no private schools in the near vicinity. Generally, no vacancies arise as happy teachers there tend to stay there.

Anyone know when the deadline is to resign to leave at Easter? I really honestly think I'm done with this shit.

kinkydorito my family and I feel exactly the same.

2 hours of work tonight before teaching begins again tomorrow

Anyone know when the deadline is to resign to leave at Easter? I really honestly think I'm done with this shit.

I think your notice must be in by...
October half term to go at Christmas,
February half term to go at Easter
May half term to go in July.

Go private! GO PRIVATE!

Curioushorse-can you outline the main differences between state and private in your experience?

I'm very very tempted by trying private before I quit the profession completely; one last ditch attempt! Unfortunately, I only ever see full time jobs advertised, not part time in our local private schools.

Yes, I think rollon is right. If you want to leave at Easter your resignation needs to be in by February half term.

When I write the job description for my successor, I'm going to put "psychic". Someone just has to look at me funny and I'm ringing the agencies