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Originally Posted by Jammon
I get tired of teachers complaining about how "bad" they have it. Teachers get something like 10 weeks of vacation over the school year and have to deal on daily basis with 20-35 students depending on the school and the grade(s) being taught. You want a tough profession- try being a nurse. The first 5 years of my career I didn't even have enough seniority to get summer vacation- I'd have to take vacation in May or October. Want to have Spring Break off to be with your kids?- good luck. That week was the first to go on the seniority ladder. I worked 50% weekends and had to work Christmas or New Years every year (they alternated from year to year). One Christmas we were so short staffed (and due to en error that was made by our management team) I worked 21 shifts with three days off. I basically had Christmas Day off that year and nothing else plus one of my weekends scheduled off.
I worked 8 hour shifts, but it was fairly common to have something happen right before shift change and I would often be working an additional hour or so just to catch up on paper work or to make sure I finished my work before I could go home. And I'm a psych nurse. I feel even more for the ER nurses and those in long-term care. Long hours, often under appreciated and a system that was in complete chaos (it is getting better now). Add in a crystal meth crisis and you have a recipe for disaster. Complete burnout.
I realize I picked this profession and I don't regret it now, but there were times I seriously considered leaving and going into an entirely different profession. For as tough as many people think they have in their jobs, just remember what nurses do. I never realized how tough a job it is mentally and physically until I entered the profession. And they weren't kidding when they say "nurses eat their young." It is not easy to be a nurse these days.
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Being married to a teacher, I sometimes rib my wife about work complaints and usually bring up the holidays.
The retort is always the same, and it is pretty effective. We, everybody, know exactly how many days of holidays that teachers get, and what their job consists of - and most of us said "cool" and went out and got some other type of job that gives us 2 to 4 weeks throughout the year. You wanted 10 weeks of holidays, and you think teachers have it easy? Why aren't you a teacher then?
In my humble opinion, teachers are, at the very least as important (if not more so) than their overpaid colleagues in the WPS, WFD and Paramedics. They are the people we entrust our kids to, and have probably the most daily responsibility in preparing our society for the future. It is absolutely the LAST profession you want to short change, because you want to attract quality people to teach the kids.
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