Anyone else want to leave teaching because they are just plain bored?

[MrsPuddle]

So, after many years teaching I have reached 51 and swapped to a middle management role in a private school, which is finally paying well. It also has decent enough children and the usual nonsense. But I cant shake off the feeling that I am so bored. Really sick of the sameness of each school year and teaching the same topics over and over. there’s no fun to it anymore and I can’t imagine any other job where you are essentially doing the same now as you did 20 years ago. I will have to hand my notice in This year or I will go nuts, but DH is understandably worried about pay and the loss of some years of TPS.

not sure what else I can do to earn money, but I thought changing to this school would freshen me up last time I felt like this, but it’s made clear I have hit a wall. Has anyone else packed it all in for the same reason?

I’m the same, teaching 29 years in a great school, a few management points and to be honest it’s boring me a bit now. I did a senior management qualification last year which was challenging but I don’t want to actually be SMT. I was passed over for a promotion I was interested in and there isn’t any goal for me now in teaching except to cruise along until I retire. I am thinking about changing my life outside of teaching more cos school will always be the same. The work is tiring and often still challenges me but I feel bored of spending my life in a classroom. What ideas have you got for spicing up your working life?

I have been keeping an eye on the exam board websites, like aqa or Pearson’s as they often ask for teachers, but It might not be different enough. Maybe I need to see it as a gap year, clear my head and if I Can’t see anything, theres always jobs back as a teacher, hey?

I got to that stage last year after 39 years and decided that was going to be my last year. OK so we get long holidays but they're always expensive and you can't even go to a concert on a school night. The negatives far outweighed the positives so I knew it was time to go.

I’m already at this stage but with only 12 years experience. I find the whole job - the same curriculum, dealing with behaviour, unreasonable expectations, exhaustion etc. really tedious.
I can’t afford much of a salary drop as I’m the main earner. I miss learning and researching my area of interest - astrophysics. I feel my brain is turning into mush from underuse. I feel stuck in a trap.

@Bluepiano you sound young enough to get out and change careers. If you are in your 30s you should get out while you can.

Over the last fifteen to twenty years of my career, I got fed up with school management. It never addressed the problems we do have and devoted too much time and energy inventing those that we didn't.

Ditto Lord of the Flies