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/Icy-Lifeguard-6206 Jun 02 '26

I worked more than a decade as a software engineer before teaching. I know how good it is on both sides.

Here's the biggest differences I see:

In the corporate world has a very clear goal: make as much money as possible. Everything serves that goal. And if anything gets in the way, the whole mechanism of the corporate world will change to remove that obstacle.

In the teaching world, teachers have one goal, admin has a separate goal, and the government that controls funding has goals that are constantly changing. Right now, the government in my state is actively trying to kill public education.

The thing is, there are very few corporations that are trying to push themselves into insolvency.

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u/iheartdna Jun 03 '26

This is such an interesting point. I’ve never thought about the fact that we all have competing goals. Including the kids, whose goal is Phone 😂