People always say how teachers make such great money and what a great cushy job it is, but if they ever tried it they would probably fail at it. It is a job where you really need a certain skill set both learned and natural to be successful. Cue all the anecdotal responses of that one teacher who every apparently knows who is just in it for the money.
I always find it sad how many people look down on teachers and teaching. I work an office job in oil and gas and a good half of the people in my office could be replaced by new people and within 3 months would not be a huge difference in productivity. Meanwhile I could never be a teacher, in fact I did a year of it in university and knew it was just not something I could do.
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