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Why do I miss teaching when I'm tired?
25/f
I taught for two years. I hated it. I loved my students and I loved the people I worked with. But I dreaded waking up everyday when I was one. My first job was a special education teaching job and it was emotionally, mentally, and physically draining. My second year, I was teaching third grade. There was a lack of admin support.
I was hired to teach, not to correct students behaviors which was about 70% of the job. I liked how I was able to make connections with the kids, see them grow, and have an effect on them. I saw it as raising the future generation.
But I was exhausted. I was tired of the lack of admin support, my weekends ended up with me working, constantly being on the move, the money I earned went into more things I had to get for the students for them to learn. I was exhausted from the lack of sleep.
I left my teaching job mid-year to find a job that I would love. And I have found it. I love my current job, but I don't get paid as much as a teacher. It's been more difficult but I'm happier. I don't dread going into work. So why is it that when I'm tired, I miss teaching? Do I miss the pay? Do I miss feeling like I was making a difference?
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Your memory or maybe your subconscious remembers the feeling mentally and physically exhausted with the teaching so when you are tired now, it connects tired with teaching and your subconscious may believe erroneously that you liked being tired and so therefore you miss teaching. Or one of your strengths is being nurturing. One can use nurturing abiliites in several jobs. I am like that and find my nurturing and teaching abilities are satisfied when I raised children, now working with grandchildren, nurturing of plants in my garden , and the teaching and nurturing of volunteering on a site like this. Why else would I do this for no pay. I am drawn to it. So find something to do that satisfys your teaching passion. It could be tutoring on the side in whatever you wish. When My daughter who played flute in band was thinking of what to do for her senior project, her band instructor suggested she learn to play the Oboe. He was losing one Sr who played who was graduating and needed one more person next year. The school wasn't equipped time wise for individual lessons but a Mom who lived a mile away taught lessons out of her Home and the school referred students to her for tutoring. Thats just an example. Don't worry about it. You are happy so you are in the right job, but just find something, if it is something small, thats okay, even if for free, as long as it takes care of a passion for teaching.
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