Getting criticized by anyone who has vocal chords and an opinion?
Being told almost every day what you're doing wrong (never anything that's right)?
People trashing the plans, schedules and programs you spent hours of time( you should have been eating, sleeping and seeing your loved ones) on?
I'm serious. I can take being bitten. I can take being sneezed on. I can take being peed on. I can take having my flesh ripped off by tiny little finger nails.
It's amazing how all that stuff can be fixed by a 4 yr old golden-haired angel leaping into my arms wanting a big squeeze. A 2 yr old running full speed into my room yelling my name.
I don't mind the physically taxing part of my job. I expected that.
What I do mind is the emotionally draining, spiritually testing interactions with the ADULTS!!!!
Do all teachers feel this way?
I KNOW this isn't what teaching is supposed to be about.
1 comment:
Honey, I don't know of any job that is really any different. The human condition causes us to complain, and be mad, and upset when things don't go our way or we didn't get what we want.
Keep your chin up, I know that you are doing an amazing job, and that someday, maybe not here, but someday, some child will come up to you and tell you how grateful they were that you were their teacher.
and Pay the joy that you would like forward, and it will come back to you. No one ever complains about getting too many compliments or about being over appreciated
-Love you.
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