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I needed to hear that!
By JF

Just when I was feeling so discouraged, you came and put it all in perspective. I've just left another exhausting day of school. It's my first year teaching and I had yard (recess) duty today and I was like what am I doing
here. I just left a job (after 10 years this September)where I could come and go as I pleased, I didn't have to take work home with me, and I got paid $5000 more than what I'm getting paid now. The teachers I work with are really supportive, but I just can't seem to get with it. They said to give it time, it's new to me. But, each day I'm getting more negative. As a matter of fact, I told

a teacher today that I went to school six-years part-time at night, while working a full-time job and raising three children (now four, because I was pregnant in my last semester, and graduated in May. I had my baby in February)to do this, and now,I keep saying maybe this wasn't for me after all. But, I decided to be a teacher just for that very reason, to touch lives, but now I don't know. I mean, I teach third grade and I can't seem to be organized to save my life ( I never knew teachers had alot of administrative things to do)I worked in a lab for ten years with no problem. Anyway, I just needed to vent. Thanks everyone for listening.