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You know, I'm really sick and tired of everyone complaining about their jobs when there really isn't any reason to. Especially if their job really only involves sitting at a desk and a computer all day. I hear this all the time. Try my job for a change. The people complaining interact with MAYBE 25-30 people daily, and it's probably ok to be a little grumpy with them because chances are, you're not going to see them for a while.. I on the other hand have to interact and be cheerful to at least 200 people - 110 of whom are in my classroom, the rest are in the cafeteria on my lunch duty and in the hallways at school.
Oh Ye of desk jobs do not have to deal with the 7th grader crawling on the floor under the desks trying to look up a girl's pants. (YES, I said PANTS.) You do not have to stand on your feet for 5 hours a day, you do not have to deal with the extremely loud cafeteria, you do not have to grade 110 ten sentence essays with poor grammar and wonder what in the world you'd been doing for the past two weeks, you do not have state testing for which you are responsible for making 50 8th graders pass. You do not have to deal with the disrespect and rudeness that comes from the youth today. You don't have to deal with the paper airplanes being thrown across the room at other boys, you don't have to deal with the failures, the cast-offs of society, you don't have to deal with not having windows in your classroom, you do not have to deal with huge desks blocking the walkways, you don't have to deal with 30 kids in one period. You don't have to have that "heart to heart" with the 8th grader who is sexually active whose parents don't care enough to give it to her themselves. You do not have to take your work home with you so that you don't have to stay until 8 pm, and for this you are NOT paid overtime. You do not have to worry about grading your tests while juggling your own classwork for graduate school and having to choose between the two. You just don't.
I just want those of you who come home and say that "oh, I'm so exhausted" to try to live through MY day and see how they feel afterwards.
I chose this profession, I love it. I don't normally complain about it because this is what I chose to do.
Just shut up and grow up, people.
Oh Ye of desk jobs do not have to deal with the 7th grader crawling on the floor under the desks trying to look up a girl's pants. (YES, I said PANTS.) You do not have to stand on your feet for 5 hours a day, you do not have to deal with the extremely loud cafeteria, you do not have to grade 110 ten sentence essays with poor grammar and wonder what in the world you'd been doing for the past two weeks, you do not have state testing for which you are responsible for making 50 8th graders pass. You do not have to deal with the disrespect and rudeness that comes from the youth today. You don't have to deal with the paper airplanes being thrown across the room at other boys, you don't have to deal with the failures, the cast-offs of society, you don't have to deal with not having windows in your classroom, you do not have to deal with huge desks blocking the walkways, you don't have to deal with 30 kids in one period. You don't have to have that "heart to heart" with the 8th grader who is sexually active whose parents don't care enough to give it to her themselves. You do not have to take your work home with you so that you don't have to stay until 8 pm, and for this you are NOT paid overtime. You do not have to worry about grading your tests while juggling your own classwork for graduate school and having to choose between the two. You just don't.
I just want those of you who come home and say that "oh, I'm so exhausted" to try to live through MY day and see how they feel afterwards.
I chose this profession, I love it. I don't normally complain about it because this is what I chose to do.
Just shut up and grow up, people.