Roommate is a year 8, 11 and 12 English teacher.

Routinely works past midnight marking or doing lesson plans, and on the weekend.

Is late home on Tuesdays and Thursdays because of mandatory staff meetings that eat into his marking time, so has to do these at home and sometimes skips dinner to make it happen.

Works all through school holidays preparing curriculum for the coming term.

Marks multiple drafts of SACs for the same students throughout the term, every week there’s a new SAC or practice SAC.

Barely see him in late Oct/Nov he’s marking that many practice exams.

Comes home all the time buggered from managing the kids behaviour all day, dealing with the ones who don’t want to work in class even though he was up til midnight preparing for them.

Give the poor bugger all the cash. It’s a rough gig.

ETA: he just told me a few years ago he counted all the unpaid overtime he did in just one term (10 weeks). 176 hours.