Also Thinking of Quitting By Gereth

I read what people have been saying here and I feel the way many of you do. This is my fourth year of teaching and when I started out I thought it would be great. Since then I have just got worn down by all the school politcs,

the never ending issue of the school not been happy with our students performance (grades either too high or too low), and the federal and state mandates that to me just do not make any sense. For me I never saw teaching as my calling but rather a stable career with little stress. How wrong I was!! Although I may leave school at 3pm I spend many hours at home planning and grading

papers and spend time on the weekends planning too. Its gotten to the point were I too feel undervalued and unappreciated., although I make decent money ($50,000), I live in a high cost area. As a result I will never be able to afford a house or have a famliy and I am feeling very bitter and angry about teaching. I would love to just quit but I have student loans to pay and the careers I would like to move into would require me to get another degree byt right now finances are an issue. I am thinking of putting together a resume that stresses the skills I have learned in teaching and applying for jobs that would utilize those skills.
In the end I just cannot see myself teaching for 20 or 30 years. I walk up each day dreading having to go to school and it is affecting all parts of my life. I also want to be able to financallly afford the things I want in life and I feel that will never be possible if I stay in teaching.

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