[artsygrrl]

Originally Posted by Glice

I think everyone's pretty resigned to the fact that the overwhelming majority of jobs are shit. I tend to come down harder on teachers because they're usually doing something ostensibly more rewarding than any job I've done. Having said that, I think the self-hating teachers are pretty endemic in the UK. Certainly in the comprehensive sector.

I think everyone whinges about their job, but I think people are less likely to make an evening of it. I can actually think of nothing duller than an evening of listening to Americans complaining about their jobs.

You are so right about teachers having a rewarding job. I have said time and time again how lucky I am to have a job I love. But teaching, like so many other fields, can just burn you out. Then it's not rewarding any more, just a job you almost dread.
Getting together over drinks or weed to bitch, piss and moan, talk shit, etc. is a GREAT way to let off steam. It's not dull at all. Really, it's therapeutic.

[knox]

A difference between teaching and other jobs I've had is that when you're teaching you really have to be there rather than just pretending. One hour of teaching is more tiring than 4 of menial admin.

[Pookie]

I find that the teachers I know who moan are the ones who haven't done any other job.

A lot of the things teachers moan about are true of most jobs.

I know somebody who was a teacher and left to work for his dad's cleaning company. He went back to teaching pretty quickly.

[dale_gribble]

"i like you."

[EVOLghost]

Originally Posted by dale_gribble

"i like you."

I like you dood...

[knox]

Originally Posted by knox

A difference between teaching and other jobs I've had is that when you're teaching you really have to be there rather than just pretending. One hour of teaching is more tiring than 4 of menial admin.

like,
a lot of the times in office work people would be talking to me
and i'd be nodding or saying "definitely"
while thinking about what i would have for lunch

and when you are teaching,
you actually have to pay attention to what they are saying and/or doing

[jon boy]

Originally Posted by Glice

It's not that we think it's easy. That's not the point. Teaching is clearly more difficult than most jobs. I used to go out with a teacher. It's the whinging. We know that you have it hard. The reason people take the piss is because, more than any other profession, teachers are most likely to have the 'god I'm hard done by' attitude that the whole world should bow down and deify each and every teacher for choosing a profession that's difficult. By contrast, I've never known a nurse, docker, oil-rigger, taxi driver, surgeon or doctor (all professions I have friends in) complain about the long, difficult hours.

this is true i dont think i have heard anyone whinge as much as teachers, although the nurses tend to do it on a mass scale in some kind of conference event where as teachers do it all year round and conference events.

[Keeping It Simple]

"This is a stickup!"

[hevusa]

Originally Posted by Inhuman

"We were designed to eat meat" (usually bringing up the usual canine teeth crap)

we are designed to eat meat.

[chicka]

sorry dude but 19 ain't going to cut it I want the full 20

I'll be there in 15 minutes

hey bro

got any cash I just ran out of gas

[EVOLghost]

Originally Posted by chicka

got any cash I just ran out of gas

asddfsadfasdfasd

[artsygrrl]

SMILE!

[DeadDiscoDildo]

Originally Posted by Glice

I hate it when teachers try and act like I ought to GIVE A FUCK about how difficult their fucking lives are when they get roughly a million years off.

As a student, I have nothing but sympathy for the people who assume I'm doing fuck all/ drinking/ having inappropriate sex. Although it's not true (I do work quite hard) I can think of nothing worse than turning into the archetypal whinging teacher.

'My bad' makes me cringe.

"my bad" not because of the phrase, but just apologizing for anything in general makes me sick. I like to just say, whoops, cuz you're not saying sorry, you're just acknowledging the fact that you did/caused something/bumped into someone, and they can deal with it....which just about sums me up

[Keeping It Simple]

Knox to me: "I'm pregnant, and you're the father."

[knox]

Originally Posted by DeadDiscoDildo

"my bad" not because of the phrase, but just apologizing for anything in general makes me sick. I like to just say, whoops, cuz you're not saying sorry, you're just acknowledging the fact that you did/caused something/bumped into someone, and they can deal with it....which just about sums me up

i am often sorry for the distress i've caused if i bump into a stranger, so i mean what i say.

[Keeping It Simple]

Only kidding, knox. In fact it's something I'd love to hear from you, as would millions of other males.

[knox]

I normally wish 99,9% of males were homosexual. But today I could deal with lots of them and then eat them alive like one of those spiders. Like one of those spiders on valium, it IS unfair.

[Glice]

Originally Posted by Keeping It Simple

Only kidding, knox. In fact it's something I'd love to hear from you, as would millions of other males.

I went out drinking with knox the other week. She's nothing special, honestly.

[Keeping It Simple]

Originally Posted by Glice

I went out drinking with knox the other week. She's nothing special, honestly.

I'll be the judge of that when it's my turn to go out drinking with knox. I'm quite far back in the queue, so it could be sometime.

[DeadDiscoDildo]

Originally Posted by knox

i am often sorry for the distress i've caused if i bump into a stranger, so i mean what i say.

sod off