Work Woes Post of Lamentation

[zannes]

I'm eleven years into my career as a Special Education teacher, but I'm finally understanding the burnout that causes so many of us to leave the profession. This is the second year that I've found my job more stress inducing and frustrating than satisfying, so have once again been considering finding different employment. The thought is scary since

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[legio_felicia]

I'll give it a try.

Has little to do with art, but you could work in an administrative position, in organisations who works towards special needs kids, making/changing policies, deciding which project is the most use full etc.
With 11 years of experience there are probably allot of administrative positions you could work in.

[hunters_retreat]

*hugs* I'm so sorry to hear about that. I know burnt out is pretty bad in this field. A teacher I work with this year said her class has her so stressed out that she's going home in tears almost every night. She's a good teacher but her class is a mix and she doesn't have the support she needs to make it run smoothly. I get tense and anxious just covering shifts in her class, I can't imagine what she feels like.

I'm afraid I don't have anything to offer, except sympathy. And a thank you, as the mother of a CA kiddo on the spectrum, I know it's a tough job and I have so much admiration for anyone who chooses to teach this population. As an aide in a special needs classroom, I applaud you as well. I can do what I do every day because I have an amazing teacher backing me up every step of the way and I know that it's the teachers that make the progress happen. Thank you for that :P

*hugs*

[charibob]

Consider library work.