My brother is one of the second group and I have a lot of respect for him for it.
He had a nervous breakdown caused by the evil shits in his class room a few years ago. He was offered a substantial pay off which would have meant he could have retired early or gone into a new career smiling, but he chose to stick at it and stay teaching.

He does bitch and moan that his holidays aren't long enough, but gets short shrift from the rest of us when we remind him that the most we get is 4-6 weeks, paltry in comparison to the 10-11 weeks he gets, plus the rest of us frequently work 12 hour days in high stress jobs too.

I could never do that job and have no inclination to do so, so I'm glad that people out there are trying.
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Sun 30 May 2010, 0:07, Reply)