So I'm on my final placement of teacher training and I'm after some advice.
I'm really miserable. I'm 100% sure that I don't want to be a teacher anymore. I'm busy all the time, on constant catch up. I get about 4 hours sleep a night because I stay up late doing work and I get up early to carry on. And the worst bit is that I spend more time with other people's children, who never seem to appreciate it, than I do with my own DD. I'm always told that I need to be more flamboyant in my delivery of lessons but I'm tired and starting to feel a like I'm suffocating under the strain and pressure that is constant so being flamboyant is proving difficult. I'm also struggling to remember things and I think it's because I'm sleep deprived and stressed constantly.
So my question is: what jobs are there that you can do with a teaching degree? I don't want to waste my degree but I can't do this job. It'll kill me and I have missed too much of my daughter's childhood already.
Has anybody been in a similar situation or just have any advice?