I am torn on this one
On one hand I am a teacher. I gave up a very good job to become a teacher. I could have a shiny new car and a rolex and a wardrobe full of garments embossed with the surnames of many a flamboyant italian fashion designer.

Instead I went back to uni to do my pgde for a year on top of the 4 years I spent getting my honours.

No wage, more student loan debt.

Then I started teaching. I am at school for 8 and generally leave about 4.30 on top of this i have parents nights, staff meetings, development meetings, marking, course development and I attend the usual school events like discos etc. I drive a modest mass market family car and will have to work until I am 68 before I can retire (mum died at 46 and dad at 63. Do the math).

As a teacher I will not see my salary rise above about £31,000 per annum. I have a 3 bedroom house which I share with my wife and 2 children.

I lead a life which as far as I am concerned is as luxurious as anyone should need and am very content.

In addition to this I get a lot of holidays in comparison to most people. I am relatively time rich and cash comfortable. It's a trade off.



On the other hand.... I fucking hate teachers. They sit in the staff room and moan about their stressful workload and how nobody understands the pressures of their job and about how horrible it is they need to stay late for a parents night. These guys are usually nearer to the end of their careers than the beginning.

A lot of them will have come straight into teaching with little or no experience in industry.

They are wankers.
(OTT, Fri 7 Sep 2012, 20:23, 3 replies)

Aren't you a bit old to be going to school discos?

( 2 Can Chunder Word to your mums, I came to prod bums, Fri 7 Sep 2012, 20:28, closed)

Haha!
You're a fucking treat aren't you?

Well done!

You forgot "I know you are but what am I" though so you only get a C for your attempt at juvenile humour.
(OTT, Fri 7 Sep 2012, 20:51, closed)

And you get an F for your attempts to make anyone feel sorry for you you whinging prick

( 2 Can Chunder Word to your mums, I came to prod bums, Fri 7 Sep 2012, 20:53, closed)

I think you belong at the back of the class young man!

(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Fri 7 Sep 2012, 20:54, closed)

I'll feel safer there, away from the rapey teachers

( 2 Can Chunder Word to your mums, I came to prod bums, Fri 7 Sep 2012, 21:00, closed)

My dad earned bucketloads when I was growing up so there was always the drive to become a big earner.
says so in your profile qotw answers

and you talk about being some high-flying insurance wanker/having a career in finance

so I guess you've fucked up quite badly to end up as a teacher, just sayin
(Concerned of Tunbridge Wells "my apron comes down and crushes the handle", Fri 7 Sep 2012, 21:14, closed)

The option was there to earn bucket loads, but then my son arrived which changed my perspective.
I chose timex instead of Rolex. And I chose summer holidays over Antacids and leaving the office at 9 every night.

So I didn't fuck up (and I was hardly a high flyer. If you are going to trawl people's accounts at least do it properly. I got to mingle with the high flyers during my time in a relatively junior position. It allowed me to see how vacuous, unfulfilling and morally bankrupt my career would be had I chosen to stay).

If you had managed to read the whole post you would have seen this.

I think my post was fairly balanced. Pointing out the errors made by daily mail mouth breathers complaining about teachers holidays whilst acknowledging that a lot of teachers are cunts that don't appreciate how good their job is.

I teach in an Additional Learning Needs school and have fuck all to complain about.
(OTT, Fri 7 Sep 2012, 22:17, closed)

tl;dr

(Concerned of Tunbridge Wells "my apron comes down and crushes the handle", Sat 8 Sep 2012, 9:06, closed)

Too long; couldn't read?
Maybe you could see about attending your local special school. They should be able to address your literacy and social interaction needs.
(OTT, Sat 8 Sep 2012, 12:49, closed)

Don't they teach how to spot a troll in training college?
You daft twat.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Sat 8 Sep 2012, 13:05, closed)

Perhaps he's just a paedophile.

( Amorous Badger NAKED BEA ARTHUR PHOTOS 4U, Fri 7 Sep 2012, 23:06, closed)

teachers are cunts

(Concerned of Tunbridge Wells "my apron comes down and crushes the handle", Sat 8 Sep 2012, 9:07, closed)

and the ones who teach spaz kids only do it so they won't get grassed when they queer the kids up

(Concerned of Tunbridge Wells "my apron comes down and crushes the handle", Sat 8 Sep 2012, 9:08, closed)

To get in he must have to pass himself off as one of those Dawson's Creek 'teens'

( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Fri 7 Sep 2012, 21:10, closed)

do you mind if I do the maths instead?

(Concerned of Tunbridge Wells "my apron comes down and crushes the handle", Fri 7 Sep 2012, 21:11, closed)

By all means feel free
Alternatively we could do the sums, crunch the numbers or work it out with a pencil.

I am typing this all on a 3.5 inch screen so I am sure you will be able to find some more errors if you concentrate hard enough.
(OTT, Fri 7 Sep 2012, 22:21, closed)

Oh no..
I got pulled up on using an Americanism, best try and disguise it as a typing error quick! Sorry, would you prefer 'typo'.
(el perro grande, Fri 7 Sep 2012, 23:22, closed)

Teachers are precisely the reason I'm no longer a teacher.
Well, that and being arrested for child molestation.
(McChinaman banned, Sat 8 Sep 2012, 0:35, closed)