What will you do if you find your job tiring and boring?
@freebreathing (419)
China
September 30, 2007 12:10am CST
I am in the situation. I haven't much free time. Most of my time is spent in the office, preparing the lessons and examining students' papers. On top of this, i think i will live my rest of my life in this way. I don't want this to happen. If you were in my situation, what would you do?
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@lucy67 (819)
• China
30 Sep 07
i suppose you are an english teacher in primary or middle school. i was ten years ago so i can understand your situation. i complained a lot too when i had to spend almost all my time doing all the things you are doing now. i made up my mind to change it. i can still remember how i studied till midnight and got my master degree. now my job is better with much free time and high pay. besides complaining, try to do something to change it.
@freebreathing (419)
• China
1 Oct 07
i do appreciate your suggestion. You see, it seems that we have the similar experience. One year ago i studied deep into night for my master degree. One year later i will get it. I still major in educational master degree. i should have major in another degree instead of education. i want to be a translator.
Thanks for your response.
@marylouu69 (297)
• United States
30 Sep 07
When you first took your job did you enjoy it or did you just take the job for the money ? Do you get good pay for your job ? These are the things you need to consider. If you never was happy with your job than I would suggest find another job that you will enjoy ! I take it your a teacher, am I right ?
@freebreathing (419)
• China
1 Oct 07
Thanks for your suggestion and your gess is right. I should say i like the job as a teacher itself but i am not in favour of the educational system. As if often the case we are just train students for taking examination rather than educate them. To make things even worse, we have to make students do lots of exercise day and night. i am in charge of a class of 56 students. i get up at 5:25 a.m. and go to bed at 11:30 p.m. My salary is nearly 5000 dolllars a year. So how can i like the job?
@colour2007 (22)
• China
28 Oct 07
Almost all the people are tired of their present job, few people can enjoy their job. That's is because you can get nothing new from your job. You do the same thing all day and you deal with the same people all day and you stay in the same place all day. If you haven't realized this or think little about it, maybe you can still live this way without feeling painful. But obviously you are not one of them.
I think you should try to find as much free time as possible. You are a teacher, right? So I think you have a flexible schedule. How to use it depends on yourself. But remember you are not Christ, you can not save all the people in the world and also it is not your responsibility to do so. Just treat it as an ordinary job and I don't think there is need to push your limit to do it. In fact everyone has his way of living and characters determine one's fate. It has nothing to do with high education. So even if some of them fail in the college entrance examination, you don't need to feel unease.
I think you can finish your work in just five hours a day,or at most six hours. Still you can use the rest.
How to? Just creat something new so that you can breathe freely. You see, you have made a lot of friends on the internet and I can see you like talking with your friends. I think you can get a lot from it.
Maybe you don't have time to take exercise, but still you can breathe in the fresh air every morning. During sunrise , just do some running on the playground which will make you feel happy at least half an hour. At ten o'clock every night, walking to home, just feel the moonlight and the queitness around you, which will touch the tender part at the bottom of your heart and make you remember those you don't want to forget.
