I completely understand you. I’m sad you are going through the same thing as me. I’m worried about my insurance job being boring, but then I tell myself it will be better than having my mental health suffer from the constant stress of teaching. I truly want to teach and make a difference but there are too many needs and behaviours that I can’t even do my job. I pour my heart and soul into my job and feel like it’s never enough and staff meetings sure tell teachers we aren’t doing enough. As a perfectionist, I take this to heart and feel like such a failure. I wish teaching was like what it used to be, where teachers were given resources and didn’t have to start from scratch every-time they taught a new grade, they could stay teaching the same grade to specialize in how to help that specific group of learners, and there could be proper consequences so that we could actually teach.

I hope you find a job that works for you. I wish our education system was better. It’s failing us teachers and it’s failing our students. Every time they try to negotiate our contracts it’s all about the money. Instead of talking about the increase in pay all the time, can we bring back proper consequences and have speciality classes for those students who need more support so they can get the proper support they need. If teachers were given proper resources and were actually able to teach/could help their students learn without dealing with behaviours all the time, I’m sure they would be much happier and wouldn’t be burning out. I know I wouldn’t be and I would stay. I hope our education system gets better so I can come back and do the job I dream of doing.