I was talking to a teacher friend of mine the other day. He's a young guy, third year in teaching, feeling isolated, and getting close to being burned out and wanting a change. He actually said he wanted to have a job that he loved and had purpose. I was a bit befuddled because of all jobs teaching seems to be one with some intrinsic reward. But it wasn’t so long ago that I was high school teacher and I had my idealism shattered to bits as I worked in a bureaucratic institution with limited job security and also limits on creative expression. The politics of public education is not exactly encouraging and can be very difficult to navigate. Your principal might hate you, you might get in with the crowd on the wrong side of the school politics, you might get reassigned if your school gets “leveled.” Lots of problems. And that’s just with one profession, and among the nobler ones if I do say so myself.
Even the most noble job won’t save you
Even the most noble job won’t save you
Even the most noble job won’t save you
I was talking to a teacher friend of mine the other day. He's a young guy, third year in teaching, feeling isolated, and getting close to being burned out and wanting a change. He actually said he wanted to have a job that he loved and had purpose. I was a bit befuddled because of all jobs teaching seems to be one with some intrinsic reward. But it wasn’t so long ago that I was high school teacher and I had my idealism shattered to bits as I worked in a bureaucratic institution with limited job security and also limits on creative expression. The politics of public education is not exactly encouraging and can be very difficult to navigate. Your principal might hate you, you might get in with the crowd on the wrong side of the school politics, you might get reassigned if your school gets “leveled.” Lots of problems. And that’s just with one profession, and among the nobler ones if I do say so myself.