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Kind of agree but thats why I stopped teaching and went to a dev bootcamp. Even though I taught for about 7 years my theory was that 3 years was a good amount
by pkdpic 5y ago
Kind of agree but thats why I stopped teaching and went to a dev bootcamp.
Even though I taught for about 7 years my theory was that 3 years was a good amount of time to put in to teaching before starting to burn out. Sort of treating it like the public service it feels like.
Not that everyone has the option of leaving. But financially speaking I observed that even fewer people had the option / privilege of teaching indefinitely without the financial support of a spouse or roommate living situations into middle-age. Thinking mainly about the growing percentage of non-fulltime teaching roles.
- cehrlich 5y agoI had the same experience. In addition to many jobs being less than full-time, it's also not a very secure job, in the sense that depending on your specialty there might only be a handful of universities that could ever potentially hire you in any given country. I'm currently transitioning from teaching to dev, and this insecurity is what caused me by far the biggest anxiety, much worse than not having a lot of money. Regarding the article: I agree entirely. I also came into teaching with the goal of being different than the teachers I'd had, but every good intent got beaten out of me by someone who used it as an opportunity to skirt the rules. Combine this with strict admin stuff (you know you're BSing and I know you're BSing, but I can't give you a bad grade because you technically didn't break any explicit rules) and you end up with the current situation of having to preemptively mention every loophole and edge case.