Good luck and all that, but when you qualify....
...don't start twatting the little feckers round the noggin with a dumbbell.

And don't harp on about how hard you work, how stressful the job is, and how you have no choice but to take your holidays at the most expensive time of the year. Just saying, s'all.
(Tighthead, Mon 24 May 2010, 12:51, 1 reply)

Yup.
Because most other (non-skiver) work every bit as hard; are every bit as stressed (management is universally mostly rubbish and co-workers can be just as frustrating as unruly pupils); put in even longer hours; can't take their work into the garden and do it while lying on the grass (like teachers can with marking); get 4 or 5 weeks' holiday per year, maximum, and there's no such thing as "cover" to do your job while you're away - it just piles up, waiting for you to get back.

And almost all jobs never have the eureka moment when a kid gets it that teachers say is what makes it all worthwhile - most non-teachers (including me) are a bit jealous of that part, which may be part of the motivation for minimising the work that teachers do.

But, admit it teachers, there is a definite culture of complaining in teaching.
( shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Wed 26 May 2010, 11:59, closed)