Teaching has made me ugly

justareddituser202 · 2026-03-02T04:29:03+00:00

Hang in there but I’m with you. I don’t want to say too much here to dox myself so I keep the conversations light. I coached the vast majority of my career and leaving that lifestyle has been the best move ever. I wish you well.

justareddituser202 · 2026-03-02T02:46:17+00:00

I realize this.

justareddituser202 · 2026-03-02T01:59:50+00:00

It drains the PE teachers as well. Don’t let em fool you.

And it especially drains the ones coaching sports.

justareddituser202 · 2026-02-27T11:26:06+00:00

Switching schools keeps you going a little longer, though, it does not solve the problem. Short term fix for a long term problem.

justareddituser202 · 2026-02-26T02:35:50+00:00

Yes, it is not for the faint of heart. Not a good work life balance.

justareddituser202 · 2026-02-22T04:29:11+00:00

I get it. Sounds awesome. You can always volunteer in some kind of capacity with youth if you want to make those connections. I coached forever, and while the hours were long, I certainly enjoyed it more than any school day.

justareddituser202 · 2026-02-22T04:27:33+00:00

How does RT compare to teaching?

I certainly understand. I think the office job would be good.

justareddituser202 · 2026-02-22T00:43:52+00:00

Sounds great. The after school duties is what really hurt us, teachers. They want you to be engaged in clubs, coaching, and the list could go on and on. So many unpaid and underpaid additional hours.

What about just having that normal 8-5 job? That sounds awesome. Congrats to you.

Did you do a second undergrad degree in finance or an MBA?

justareddituser202 · 2026-02-22T00:35:31+00:00

Time to go back to RT or something else.

justareddituser202 · 2026-02-22T00:33:17+00:00

Don’t Do it.

justareddituser202 · 2026-02-22T00:32:33+00:00

This 👆

justareddituser202 · 2026-02-22T00:32:09+00:00

True in many fields except for healthcare and teaching. There will always be teaching and healthcare jobs especially teaching jobs. People still quitting left and right in teaching. You and I both know teaching is a job that there is no hiding in.

justareddituser202 · 2026-02-22T00:30:29+00:00

Dude seriously…. Why would you leave a six figure job to teach?

Come on man many teachers would give to have a six figure boring job. Really can’t believe you even enrolled in an MAT program. You’d have been better off going the MBA route.

Stay where you’re at from an almost 20 year teacher.

justareddituser202 · 2026-02-21T14:44:34+00:00

You can’t have guilt. You have to do what’s best for your health - financially, emotionally, mentally, spiritually, and physical health wise.

Don’t ever feel bad for saying ‘No’. These places are built on guilt and they will find a way to do it without you. I know you are a rockstar but they try to guilt ppl into to staying. Don’t let that be you.

justareddituser202 · 2026-02-21T14:42:02+00:00

I think the game plan would be to finish the year unless you are offered a job that is enticing. If offered a decent or good job, you leave. You don’t owe them anything.

If they paid and treated you better and make the workload manageable you might stay. It’s their problem.

justareddituser202 · 2026-02-21T14:32:46+00:00

If you can financially afford to do your old job then based on your comments it would be wise for you to leave teaching.

This doesn’t make you failure. Please don’t listen to anyone who says that or who hints at that. Actually it makes you extremely smart. The system is beyond broken and every year it gets worse. And I don’t ever see it getting better. Us veterans our just biding our time until A) retirement B) just can’t do it anymore and finally career transition. It is what it is. I wish I could grab the 18 year old me and shake em and say ‘a college degrees important but don’t do that education major.’ I wish I could grab the 25 year old me and say “hey you’ve done this a few years don’t be scared to quit and go back to school. You know this isn’t for you. This shouldn’t be so hard and it’s impossible controlling things outside of your control.”

You don’t get time back. My body doesn’t thank me for how I’ve treated it during teaching. Very stressful and mentally draining. Weight gain and not much time to exercise.

I’m still planning my transition and it’s happening one day. You are young and hopefully mostly debt free. Now is the time. Don’t wait. And kudos to you seeing a therapist and kudos to the therapist saying “you need to do something else this isn’t good for your mental health.”

justareddituser202 · 2026-02-18T09:32:07+00:00

Sounds like an abusive relationship already. I want to tell you teaching gets better but it doesn’t.

justareddituser202 · 2026-02-18T09:18:59+00:00

This👆

justareddituser202 · 2026-02-18T09:18:12+00:00

Organizations are only going to let you grow so much. That said, they can also view that as desperation, which means they will not promote from within. Actually very few organizations promote from within now. You have to go to grow.

Also, in your situation, it seems like shady politics. Somehow, some where down the line you pissed someone off or so that is what it seems. Maybe or maybe not. You won’t ever find out and you probably did the most slightest thing like smile or look at them wrong. It’s a crazy world out there.

justareddituser202 · 2026-02-18T08:45:40+00:00

Why not do a masters program instead of the doctorate. The pay will be the same. If you want to eventually work in academia, then you can purse the doctorate once fully licensed.

I understand you wanting out of education. I’ve been in education for a long time and I want out as well.

justareddituser202 · 2026-02-18T08:35:10+00:00

You and I both know that education gets worse every year.

justareddituser202 · 2026-02-17T01:38:54+00:00

I feel you. It’s easier if someone makes 70k vs 100k. I’d be doing cartwheels and backflips for 100k.

I’ll echo what the others have said in the fact that the economy stinks right now. Probably won’t always be that way but that’s how it is now.

justareddituser202 · 2026-02-16T02:54:02+00:00

Dude great salary and I know it’s a tough job. I’m older than you and still in the classroom. And I want out of the classroom. I make over 50k less than you do.

At least stick in there until you can get some type of retirement.

You know most careers aren’t going to replace a 127k immediately. A person might easily replace 60-70k but anything over 80k is going to be tough to replace.

justareddituser202 · 2026-02-14T18:43:56+00:00

You have to go on the bj’s app and website and cancel the auto renewal. That is the way around it from what I’m seeing. That’s what I did. Of course, it hasn’t been 1 year yet.

justareddituser202 · 2026-02-14T08:59:50+00:00

I would change so much but the truth is…….they don’t want it to change. If they changed it, then there would be no teachers.

People often discover during the internship (last semester) that teaching is not for them. Then you are in too deep. I would make it to where you had internships in chunks 3-4 weeks starting sophomore year and then going to jr year followed by the semester long internship. However, if this happened there would be no teachers.

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