What exactly is it that makes a job thankless? I have students who say thank you every day. Even after I make them take notes..... So why is it that teaching is a "thankless job"? I'm not going to say that all of my students understand what education gives them, making it more-so "thankless" but I'm not sure I fully understand the term.
What jobs are thanked? We probably are thankful to our doctors. But do most people say thank you after getting shots, blood drawn, or chemo? Probably not. Some will. Like my students who tell me thank you. But like education people aren't sure just what the doctor has done for them until they feel better which is usually long after they walk out of the doctors office. So how do we thank them? With money. We pay them more. If that is the case, then yes. Teaching is a thankless job.
Why do I bring this up? I'm just still stuck on a comment that the administration made at faculty meeting today that our job may hard but the job gets more thankless the higher up you get.... But aren't they compensated more fairly for their job? For the most part can't they leave their jobs at work? I can't. As a beginning teacher I am often at the school before most and I am almost always the last to leave. I bring work home and I think about it constantly.
I hope some day that I wont.
They tell us all the time that they are there to support us. Well today I decided the support that I need is to not be reminded how much worse their jobs are than mine. I don't go to E.R. doctors who have to work nights and say "Your job is hard, but I'm a teacher." I don't go to Sanitation Workers and say "Yeah, but at least you aren't a teacher."
If you have to add a caveat at the end of your thanks, maybe you should just follow Thumpers advice and not say anything at all.
2 comments:
Yeah, seriously... it's like being in middle school again, but with old people. (No really - that's exactly what it's like). I wish I could say that next year will be better. It hasn't been for me :) Maybe once I've been doing it for a decade or so.
Halle-stinkin'-lujah! You couldn't have said it better. I'm so sick of people saying I shouldn't gripe because I have all of these days off and what-not, but I'm still working on school things on those days off and I don't get paid for it. You go girl!
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