Incredibly Frustrated with my Job! (long rant)

[KSigkid]

Originally posted by AchtungBaby80
It might come as a surprise, but teachers regularly pull 11- or 12-hour days, then go home and do more lesson plans and get materials ready for the next day, grade papers, go to lots of professional development, parent-teacher conferences, and staff meetings, and somehow find time to get together make-up work for absent students, sponsor an extracurricular activity or two, meet with students who are behind, and maintain a personal life--and that's after standing on their feet and running around all day. I'm sure there are teachers out there who hit the door as soon as the last bell rings and who do nothing with their whole summers off, but 99% of the ones I know are still doing work while all their friends in other jobs get to go home and sit on their butts.

It might come as a surprise, but I worked as a preschool teacher during college, and did the job full-time for 6 months afterward.

It might come as a surprise, but both my mom and uncle were teachers. I also have quite a few friends in the profession. I have quite a bit of respect for those who do the job well, and am well-versed in the time commitments that teachers have on their plate.

It might come as a surprise, but plenty of other people (myself included) pull those days and longer at other jobs. Talk to construction workers, financial people, attorneys, journalists, publishing people, and people in many other professions. Long, hard hours, including time spent working at home, is not a characteristic unique to teachers.

It might come as a surprise, but nowhere in my post was an attack on teachers. I just think you were exaggerating quite a bit when you said that teachers work 100x harder than people at most professions.