The Death of Teaching
One of the worst moments in your life is when you come to realise that you are not happy in your job anymore. There can be varying reasons for this and it may be a passing phase in which case the feeling itself passes and you are able to continue your job as you have done in the past. It's something else when you realise the job itself and what it demands of you is changing and it's no longer what you want. I think of myself as an 'accidental' teacher. I didn't have any plans to go into teaching, it's more of something I fell into after leaving university. I had a Master's degree in English Literature, but I had no particular training in anything. A couple of years' of teaching would look better on my CV than a career in waitressing, I thought. How little was I to know that I would spend the next fifteen years in the job. Teaching is a profession that grew on me. I didn't always enjoy it at the beginning, but I came to enjoy it immensely....