/lit/ - Literature

What's wrong with being a teacher?

I'm an engineering major but still, what's the problem?

Retarded troll is retarded.

Most want to be Chemical Engineers.

>>1419218
Simple. They have an interest in the subject and want to share their knowledge with others.

Sorry it doesn't live upto you future of working at Costco.

because they think that they'll write in their free time and become famous authors.

>>1419223
>Teachers
>free time.
That's a pretty stupid misconception there. I even remember telling somebody else at school, "Well if you don't like homework why the hell would you want to be a teacher?"

>>1419219
Teaching the same shit year after year to unappreciative students, long hours, average wages, one of millions doing the same sort of job, cop shit from parents, once a teacher, always a teacher.
That's the way I saw it from my Australian high school.

>>1419227
7 weeks summer break here in Scotland. What, 2 weeks doing the next years class schedule. 2 weeks at christmas, 3 days of which will be marking etc.

In my school history teachers always seemed jaded because they had to teach World War II for the most part. They never really touched on any other subjects.

Also, History and English can't be all that great, most H/E teachers are alcoholics.

>>1419227
who misconceived?

>>1419218
I don't want to. I am working on my bachelors in environmental geology. Getting degrees in history or English would be easy and I am definitely interested in both subjects, but then I would almost definitely have to teach.

I know plenty of people who studied history and/or political science then gone onto do plenty of things other than history. Troll harder OP.

>>1419249
other than teaching*

>>1419249
You might be right, however I was looking over this >>1418725 thread and the number of people who want to teach seems way too high. They might end up somewhere different like the media, an NGO, business, what ever. I just don't get why anyone, in their university days, would want to become a teacher.

>>1419218
WHERE IS MY INTERESTING PIC???!!!1

>>1419263
the original pic was the interesting pic.
I'll dump a couple more if I get answers.

So far I have:
>They have an interest in the subject and want to share their knowledge with others.

and that's it.

>>1419267
Why isn't that good enough

What other reason would there be?

NOT THE DAMN MONEY

Why does everyone always assume teaching only means teaching grade school?

I teach college and go to grad school, work on a literary journal. Pretty much gearing up to be doing this same kind of work as a career. Teach creative writing. Write. Publish. Be my professors.

>>1419229

however, there's also convenient holidays; great insurance benefits; early and comfortable retirement, without having to pay into a pension; tenure, or basically the guarantee of at least a middle-class existence for life; summers off, meaning the free time to pursue other interests; the satisfaction of helping others learn; and continued intellectual develop in a subject you find interesting.

also, if you become a highly qualified, you can make just under $60,000/year in the states, plus run a small business or something on the side.

never understood the teacher hate on this website. it's a decent job, and morally agreeable, at that. probably most of it stems from clueless teenagers.

>>1419279
pic for bump

Onestop reminds me of those old John Woo films from the 80s... they were cheesy, they were Cantonese, and they were full of the most dreadful melodrama you could ever stand. If it weren't for the constant shooting and explosions, no one would care about Woo.

>>1419353

was that our "interesting" pic?

I'd rather commit suicide than teach high school, but working at a university is my dream job. The pay where I live may be shitty, but I love just being on campus with all the books and historical buildings, and would be happy coming in to work every day of my life.

>>1419540

>mfw you make $25,000/year with no benefits and no prospects for advancement grading >9000 freshman comp papers (which might as well be a high school class anyway)

>>1419542
I don't give a fuck about money, I just don't wanna deal with retard highschoolers.

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>>1419547

yeah, you'll give a fuck about money when you just put in a 70hr work week and still qualify for food stamps.

also
>college freshman
>not retarded
>chortlingscholars.png

>>1419353
yup

>>1419572
*freshmen

obligatory
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obTNwPJvOI8

also, teaching isn't that bad of gig. stop hatin', OP

>>1419573
AAAAAHHHHHHHH

I don't want to be, it's just what I tell my parents I'm going to do.