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nice post. To each their own. I know some really dispicable teachers. I also know despicable software engineers and despicable call centre workers. All joking aside i am fairly sure i am one of the few semi sane teachers in the uk. Even before going into teaching a lot of them struck me as a bit odd. I am married to a teacher so i encountered a fair few of them.

It is a simple quality of life issue. I used to work in ict sales and was always chasing the money. The last place i worked, a company that sounded like hell, the top earner for the year brought in just over £105k. I salivated at the thought of something comparable being in store for me. But then i realised 2 things.

1. That guy was in the office 12-14 hours a day, 6 days a week and probably spent half his earnings on tums and pepto.

2. My newborn son was more important.

Queue voluntary unemployment, another £5k in student loans and going from a successful career to being a whipping boy on placement for one of the old school nutjob types to whom i assume most of the above posts refer to.

I am now in a rewarding job in a school for the physically and mentally impaired. I get to go to the park with my son on weeknights and i am home in time to give my baby daughter her last two feeds.

I dont miss the cut and chase of sales.

Is it just me or does this qotw promote sweeping generalisations based on a persons limited exposure to people in a certain profession. What fun. Next week, your most hated ethnicity.

On the other hand, i fucking hate lawyers.
(OTT, Thu 27 May 2010, 22:31, 2 replies)

of course
being a teacher, you'd know that in this context, it's "Cue" not "Queue". The former denotes triggers, the latter is a line of waiting people.

And speaking of people; People, please don't feed the trolls.
(The Incredible Sulk Finally remembered his password on, Fri 28 May 2010, 0:35, closed)

yawn
you failed to mention that the first sentence of my post wasnt capitalised. If you are going to be a pedantic grammar nazi you should really look before you leap judging from your capitalisation

I actually liked thefinch's post, hence the click. Maybe that is what makes me a troll. Or may'be its' my punc;tuation and speling. Or maybe because i offered my opinion on this week's question which i feel is a bit of a downer in comparison to last week.

Whatever it is, i am jacking teaching and taking up acting. I am sure there is a part for someone of my description in the new hobbit movie.
(OTT, Fri 28 May 2010, 9:31, closed)

If Grammar Nazi was a profession....
I would hate them most of all. We all have office software, when writing a letter or document we will make sure the grammar and spelling are correct. This is a bulletin board, get over yourself trying to correct the whole world just because it doesn't read properly.

Grammar Nazis can shove their extra apostrophe up their arse for nothing and fuck off whilst they are doing it.
( TheFinch is getting to grips with the complex plane on, Fri 28 May 2010, 15:15, closed)

Hahaha
Genius
(OTT, Fri 28 May 2010, 20:33, closed)

I am plagiarising Bruce Robinson
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rydr6WYOPYw&NR=1

3 minutes in if you haven't seen it before...
( TheFinch is getting to grips with the complex plane on, Fri 28 May 2010, 21:45, closed)

I'm sorry
I didn't mean to be nasty.

If it helps, I was tired, had a bit of a cold, and was slightly tipsy; i certainly failed my own rules of thinking before posting.

I'm tempted to delete the offending post, as a courtesy; but I've been pulled up for doing that before.
(The Incredible Sulk Finally remembered his password on, Sun 30 May 2010, 2:10, closed)

I wish more of them
were like you.

I must also admit that this one teacher really queered the pitch for everyone else in my eyes. Frankly she was a bully.
( TheFinch is getting to grips with the complex plane on, Fri 28 May 2010, 9:09, closed)