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Originally Posted by Jensitive22
Wildflower, I absolutely relate and sympathize to what you are feeling and saying. The feelings of inadequacy, lack of confidence, the struggles with you peers, the stress and anxiety. I don’t have any answers for you, as I crashed and burned and was kicked to the curb. You are in a profession that does not nurture or value its teachers. There is a lot of back biting, *** covering, and burn out. The teachers who do a lot of extracurricular activities are the pets of administration, not the ones with their noses to the grindstones trying to be the best teachers they can be. It’s not much different than when we were in high school.
It’s all about how much and how long you can take it.
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That’s exactly it. I’m wondering how long I’ll be able to go on. I just don’t know what else I would do if I quit/was let go. I don’t have any experience in any other field and I only have a bachelor’s in English and secondary education. I could maybe do something with the English degree like proofreading but I wouldn’t know how to break into the industry. Or if that would be too stressful too, what with deadlines and such.
I’m hoping I’ll kick this mild depression and feel better about work again. But I don’t know.