Yayyy.
Nothing wrong with teaching, Sooty, it's just not the best money in the world and secondary school kids can be brats.
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It's got a lot better, passable pension, long holidays, some 6th formers can be very attractive.
You don't have to teach secondary school.
Great place to work on your master piece. Don't make the realisation that no matter what you do you will fail and your life will suck too early.
Quote: sootyj @ April 25 2011, 4:27 PM BSTGreat place to work on your master piece. Don't make the realisation that no matter what you do you will fail and your life will suck too early.
*spoilers*
I did like the idea of teaching as I could write in holidays, but I don't want my masterpiece to fail!
Quote: Scatterbrained Floozy @ April 25 2011, 4:20 PM BSTYayyy. Nothing wrong with teaching, Sooty, it's just not the best money in the world and secondary school kids can be brats.
That's an understatement. I know somebody who had a nervous breakdown from teaching them. Your degree subject is irrelevant for most careers, though. With the exception of Law and Medicine very few need a specific subject. And your work in the Balloon Field proves you have good people skills, which employers love.
Quote: Scatterbrained Floozy @ April 25 2011, 4:20 PM BSTYayyy.
Nothing wrong with teaching,
Apart from the kids.
Quote: sootyj @ April 25 2011, 4:27 PM BSTIt's got a lot better, passable pension, long holidays, some 6th formers can be very attractive.
You don't have to teach secondary school.
Anyone who would choose in this day and age to teach secondary school kids is either a fool, deluded, a masochist, or has suffered some sort of head injury which has wiped their own memory of being a secondary school pupil. You'll just be fighting against loud mouthed shits every lesson, every day.
Quote: Matthew Stott @ April 25 2011, 4:52 PM BSTYou'll just be fighting against loud mouthed shits every day.
And then you log off the BCG and start teaching.
Quote: Matthew Stott @ April 25 2011, 4:52 PM BSTApart from the kids.
Anyone who would choose in this day and age to teach secondary school kids is either a fool, deluded, a masochist, or has suffered some sort of head injury which has wiped their own memory of being a secondary school pupil. You'll just be fighting against loud mouthed shits every lesson, every day.
My cousin teaches in a dodgy school in Doncaster. He loves it especially the challenges some of the kids present.
I think he might be a bit of a mental.
Quote: Griff @ April 25 2011, 5:11 PM BSTIndeed. I also know someone who has been assaulted and threatened with a knife as part of their enriching educational career.
My Dad took early retirement due to the job contributing towards him developing depression.
N.B. don't be disheartened there's a whole panopoly of sucky jobs for the aspiring graduate.
Quote: Griff @ April 25 2011, 5:15 PM BST
Well on the upside, he still gets all his money and doesn't have to go to work anymore! I wish I could take early retirement!
Quote: Griff @ April 25 2011, 5:11 PM BST
Indeed. I also know someone who has been assaulted and threatened with a knife as part of their enriching educational career. Plus you get to write up thousands of pages of useless paperwork that nobody will ever read, and the national curriculum ensures that you put no creativity or personal experience/knowledge into teaching at all and just recite DCSF-provided material all day every day like an automaton.
Sorry to break it to you Griff but the first thing that Mr Gove did was abolish the DSCF and turn it back into the DOE.
Quote: Timbo @ April 25 2011, 4:29 PM BST*spoilers*
Is this the right thread for 'spoilers'?
Anyway, sorry didn't see the stuff last night until today. Hope you're okay Timbo even if the no claims bonus is now an ex no claims bonus
Hurrah...
Quote: Scatterbrained Floozy @ April 25 2011, 5:38 PM BSTHurrah...
