The grass is always greener.....but...

[Rockport24]

teaching ain't no walk in the park, 6 hours a day, but that is up in front of kids teaching. Then correcting papers, preparing class plans, parent teacher meeting, etc, all on top of that. It's a well over a 40 hours per week job when all is said and done. I'm not a teacher, but my parents both taught for over 30 years.

[striperman36]

The dude who gets to beat Tred Barta to a pulp

[Slingah]

I actually have it pretty well off for the fishing thing.....self-employed painter....and most of my jobs are in the seaside towns I fish....makes it easy for before work outings and late nites...

[Pete F.]

Originally Posted by Rockport24

teaching ain't no walk in the park, 6 hours a day, but that is up in front of kids teaching. Then correcting papers, preparing class plans, parent teacher meeting, etc, all on top of that. It's a well over a 40 hours per week job when all is said and done. I'm not a teacher, but my parents both taught for over 30 years.

I had a teacher in high school who worked in industry prior to teaching and he said it was an easy job, but he was a natural teacher and taught math in a state with Regents exams where the cirriculum was pretty static. After a few years the day to day stuff of planning, homework and testing is already done, you can do the BS work of grading etc. quickly, and spend your time teaching.
Of course my kids have to write explanations of how they arrived at the answer to their math problems, I would have failed.