Teaching - A Shit Job?
Meditationtime Forum Post
Date: Posted 3 years before Sep 25, 2016
MiBeloved 3 years ago
Teaching may be seen as a service rather than as a role or position. Does a janitor really see his job as a role or a position? It is the lowest position job there is, which is like he has no position. He has no role because no one wants to be in his lowest position spot.
If you feel that you are not up to teaching, then consider if you can do it as a service, as a lowly service, because in a sense that is what it is. School teachers actually have shit jobs because even though they train so many students, they do not themselves directly benefit from what they do for the students.
Your school teachers do not benefit from your wages once you leave school and get a job. How many of us have even bought a candy bar or a bottle of water for a school teacher, but we give our families our lives and make sure they get the best of everything.
Teaching should be done but as a service like as a menial service, then there is no apologizing for being the authority. There is no phony humility to be displayed. If you are the janitor on the staff, the bottom man, then what humility do you have to show?’ Obviously your job description itself says that humility is redundant.
Yes, teach all you want but do it as a service.
unlimitedsun 3 years ago
MiBeloved wrote:
Teaching may be seen as a service rather than as a role or position.
unlimitedsun’s Response:
Yes, and for that more and more good teachers leave the career. Not because teachers do not feel that students do not give back to them, they are aware that it can be an ungrateful job save the occasional rewards of contributing to another's development.
And, of course if incompetent teachers remain in the system, or individuals who more and more simply see the profession as a job versus a calling; many dedicated teachers feel discouraged by dubious school administrations and the new tendency to push a corporate america mentality within.
In addition, there is a great amount of paperwork, and the policy of child left behind that pushes all to teach for the purpose of passing state mandated high stake exams instead of enriching young lives with knowledge (and wisdom); and of course dealing with wreckage of the American societal family values in the classroom.
When around this number of children all day long and accounting for the aforementioned points it is easier to have one's heart in it, and as stated in the post to have a service attitude and see this as a service.
