Truthfully???? I am a teacher & hated every minute of it, sorry not for me especially as it has become more about paperwork now than actual teaching. Only thing to recommend it for me when I was doing it was the long holidays.
I agree. I left secondary school teaching because :
1. Lack of parental support for what you do
2. Badly brought up kids (and I was quite strict with them)
3. Can only have hols when it's the school hols (can't just have a day off when I want - like I can now)
4. No free evenings or weekends - all taken up with marking and prep work.
5. The holidays were no compensation - I used to feel shattered at the end of each term - also had to work some holidays as well - going into school to do stuff, marking, prep work etc etc.
6. Had to go on holidays in school hols at the most expensive times of the year (even though I didn't have my own children) and everywhere i went it was busy - full of families and kids (couldn't get away from them even on vacation)
7. No breaks during the working day - often went without lunch as had to give kids detention, give them extra tuition so I often went without a drink or food. Even sometimes had to ask another teacher to look after my class just so that I could visit the toilet (or "restroom" to Americans).
8. Trying to teach a class of kids if you're feeling mildly unwell (headache, cold etc) is a nightmare. You lose your voice within a few hours.
9. Often had to supervise kids in the clubs at the end of school - making the day longer.
10. Teaching and taking out kids is now a legal nightmare - in case anything goes wrong - you can end up being sued (or worse). Happened to a teacher in my school.
11. Fed up of sorting out petty disputes between kids (and their families as wel who had outside vendettas).
12. Constant interfering by Government - paperwork, curriculum changes, different policies. ARGH !!
13. Having to supply the school with my own wages - e.g. buying books, pens etc
The school I was in - everyone who could just got out of teaching. The only ones left were the ones out of college who were still bright eyed and bushy tailed and the older ones who didn't want their pensions affected by leaving the profession.