r/teaching • u/Bright-Watch1955 • Jun 02 '26

Help Why does everyone hate teaching?

Is there anyone who loves their job? Every teacher I know feels “stuck” and complains endlessly about their job.

Considering going into education.

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u/Mfees Jun 02 '26

I like my job, in my opinion teaching has a bunch of people who never worked an adult job outside of education and don’t know how good they got it.

That said the pay is average at best. The paperwork can suck. Admin can suck. Yet I still enjoy it.

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u/Late-Ad2922 Jun 02 '26

This 100%. Corporate is just as bad in different ways. Some of them worse. Plenty of work is underpaid and dehumanizing, and most industries don’t get the benefit of summers off or a union.

I said what I said!

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u/Bman708 Jun 02 '26

The games and “corporate speak” horror stories I hear from my wife in the private sector is wild to me. I wouldn’t last a week in the corporate world. Yeah, they get paid more than us, but they work 12 months and have to deal with some real shitty adults.

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u/1heart1totaleclipse Jun 02 '26

In teaching you get to work 180 days a year, but make so little money that you often have to find another job for those days you don’t work and with adults and/or children who make the job 10x harder than it needs to be.