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Omg thank you this is the most detailed and simple explanation ive ever seen thank you so much

Introverted? Some of the traits you're describing sound more like autism than simple introversion.

You seem like a kind, loving, and deeply considerate person. It's a shame that this didn't work out as schools/students need people like you.

Volunteering at a London secondary school 20+ years ago for two weeks put me off teaching at school. I went into industry, had an international career. At 39 I emigrated from the U.K. to teach English in central Europe. No regrets.

I’ve been teaching English for 10 years to various grade levels, and although I have the same traits as you, the key to my ability to survive in this career is that my public speaking fear is limited to adults. I can’t speak to a group of fellow adults, and even one-on-one conversations with other adults make me nervous, but thankfully I’ve never feared talking to kids, no matter how many of them there are.

Great video - I can relate 100%.

What music did you use for the last segment please?

Best "I quit" video I've seen.... A completely personal perspective and I can't thank you enough because I've been there done that and I can say that I completely understand you and what you went through. What you said about helping people at the end of the video is so so true. The only difference I feel from everything you said is that I do enjoy speaking in public meaning it doesn't make me the slightest uncomfortable. But all the rest help me understand myself even more. Thank you. Love the background music BTW. I taught for 10 years at a school and after feeling exhausted i quit for a sabatic year. It was good though. I mean I done a good job and had good experiences despite experiencing a lot of what you mentioned in the video. During that year I started working in teaching adults ( as I'm and ESL teacher) and Ive enjoyed it a lot more. I don't know what I'll be doing in the future but I'm enjoying my life now.

Understanding ones social battery is key when dealing with introvert and extrovert definitions.

I sadly regret getting into teaching in 2019. I keep being told I'm "making a difference" and "shaping lives", but to be honest I'm tired of the long hours, the apathy from students, the unrealistic expectations from your school and the poor pay.. I was warned by my friend... I should have listened 😢

I took a PGCE in science at Sussex University in 1999 / 2000. I had taught in Southern Africa with VSO and thought that it was the career for me. The lecturing component at University was awful. It was chaotic and disorganised. We were being told "do as I say, not as I do". My experiences of teaching practice at a secondary school in Eastbourne and then another in Brighton were eye opening. Student teachers were condescended to by many of the staff at the schools and by some of the lecturers on the PGCE course. It was implied that to be a competent teacher was some holy grail which we would never attain. Nothing was ever good enough. I did teach for a number of years after qualifying in various international schools but I was wholly unprepared when for the first time I taught in a school in the UK, albeit a private one. This school I moved to on returning to the UK was a big Essex public school. The kids were awful, rude, aggressive. Many of the parents were foul and arrogant and the senior staff were bastards. After that experience, I decided to become a private tutor. I never looked back. I'm also an introvert and found teaching in schools absolutely exhausting. Also I knew that I had mental health issues- which in recent years I realise is CPTSD. The job made it worse. In short, I should never have become a teacher.

I was a teacher in a juvenile detention centre for a couple of years before moving on to managing centres for homeless and at-risk teenagers. Kids, especially juveniles, size up adults in seconds, and if they have a PhD, it's in undermining authority. If you walk into a classroom disliking and afraid of the kids, then they will drive you out because, and not incorrectly, you are not what they need. I wouldn't make your decision to quit final, do something else for as long as you need, but maybe also get part-time or volunteer work in a youth centre to gain skills in working with difficult kids. The rewards can make the effort worthwhile, now long retired I've had adult men stop me in the street wanting to give me a hug and thank me for caring for them when they were nutty teenagers with a criminal record as thick as an old-fashioned phone book. The last centre I managed in western Sydney had a great outcome rate of 63% of clients returning to education, stable accommodation, and even employment. I suppose running the show I had the advantage of having been myself a London street boy in the early seventies, and as such I know how their little brains tick, and what emotionally they need. You don't learn these things in a book, and especially not one written today. LOL So you got a bloodied nose, maybe you needed it in a journey towards being an outstanding teecha.

You saved your life. You will not regret.

I went into teaching as a second career teaching science, and I also left after 6 months. I see a lot of videos, like your one, where people analyse their reasons for leaving teaching subjectively. Few talk about the objective reasons. And, IMO, the system is weighted against you.. WHY, for instance, are we teaching 13/14 year olds about Ronald Reagan and Vietnam Paddy Fields and Scottish invasions and the Black Death and all that? Only about 10%, of them if that, will have any interest. SO 90% of them will be bored, and about 10% will alleviate their boredom destructively. The school system is set up to waste their time and the teachers' time. No wonder that only a dumbo extrovert would feel energised by such mayhem! OTOH, I wouldn't be at all surprised if you enjoyed teaching the 16+ year-olds, the ones who had CHOSEN their subjects, in their smaller groups. IMO, the SYSTEM is OBJECTIVELY the problem.

Thank you for sharing this. I didn’t learn much “history” when I was at high school. Now I’m 51 I’m fascinated by history and women’s experiences. My ancestors are from Ireland, Wales, Scotland, England and Prussia. I didn’t grow up knowing about these places. I’ve started learning partly because of learning my ancestry and exploring my DNA. I now live temporarily in Houston Texas where I have been exploring the Lutheran German culture and the connections to my ancestors. I learn some history when my sons were into watching “horrible histories” on UA-cam when they were 9-12 and really into renaissance and the 1400-1700 years and How to train a dragon.

Fusion Academy is a schooling model that has 1 teacher (tutor) one student … with a community room in the middle of single student classroom spaces.

SuperProf is a website for teachers to deliver online classes

I’m on the precipice of dropping out of teacher training post graduate studies. I’m looking at substitute teaching and nannying. I am 51, an Australian in USA for the next 18 months and I completed a Bachelor degree in Youth Work in Australia in 2003 and since then always intended to go on to get a Masters in Teaching. I’ve been a Teacher Aide in Australia at various locations and my father was a high school teacher and my sister is currently a teacher.

Well said mate! Anyone who belittles teachers and down play the stress levels haven’t got a clue.

I’m a secondary school teacher here in Brum…have been for nearly 30 years. I nearly quit after my first placement. Glad I didn’t. I didn’t get into teaching because of my love of my subject, but a huge desire to work with kids and make a difference. This is what has kept me going and makes me good at what I do. It’s not a job, it’s a life choice. It’s bloody hard.

I tried teaching in my 30s back in the 90s. I experienced pretty much what he described but in spades. It's strange seeing a younger person finding out what I found out all those years ago. That includes the dreamy optimistic bit when you are training. The system get's new blood constantly. It feels quite biblical to see, but that probably makrs zero sense. One big difference is that my nightmare was pre-internet so you went tnrough it alone, completely gaslighted unable to see anyone else telling it like it is. If something stops you sleeping you know all you need to know.

ex teacher here - loved the Private Ryan analogy

Some people just aren't cut out to be a teacher. You can do all the college and training there is, and be as smart as they come, but if you don't have thick skin and don't know how to connect with your students, it wont be long before you hit the highway.

As a parent and I’m really scared for where my kids will go when they become teens. I don’t know where I can get help with this!

I left industrial management to teach for 36 years, 21 as head of a high school. I never regretted it. Things became difficult with the changes brought in by Thatcher and subsequent conservative governments. We ploughed our own furrow, supporting the teachers and maintaining a community of courtesy and progress with smiles as a normal phenomenon. Since I retired, social media and electronic devices have gone side by side with draconian regulations. If the school leadership is not strong, students can swear at you or be aggressive but if you do it to them you can be fired. Perhaps this exodus of good teachers is going to cause someone to improve the situation!?

I've been teaching for 45 years. I am an introvert but I keep it to myself. I keep away from a lot of teachers because they are the most narcissistic people you'll ever meet. They are the ones who are determined to climb the administrative ladder by whatever means short of murder. I was terrified of public speaking until I read the best book with the worst title, "How to Win Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie. What's wrong with the Scottish Education system? Kids just want fairness and a teacher who knows their subject, respects them without being their friend because you're not. There are no cowards in teaching. Also, dispense with woke brain washing. Ireland's education system was once excellent but is being wokified by Marxist wankers.

Have you thought about working in a special needs school? I found it to be very rewarding. Sure it was challenging at times. The children were not too bad. Most were quite well behaved compared to a regular school. Class sizes were small and there are support staff in the classes with you.

Entitled children growing up and having entitled children is a social disaster.

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As a software engineer I think you would be suited to software engineering and yes you can find some way of bringing your love of history into it.

Thank you for sharering your experience

I thought my dream job would be teaching English as a second language. I studied Linguistics and LOVED the theory behind language acquisition and general stuff like that. Until I actually stepped into the classroom. It was like entering a shark den. I immediately felt incredibly self-conscious and aware of everything I did, and at the end of the day, my voice hurt, and I was constantly ruminating on things I may have done wrong. I was terrified of not giving the kids a good lesson, but the energy drain was the worst. I felt mentally exhausted by the end of the day. Best of luck to you, and thanks for sharing your story.

I have been working in primary education for the last 28 years - most of them good, though my feelings of frustration and general uselessness come and go in waves. What really gets me through are those moments when you can see you make a real difference and the support of colleagues lightens the load and helps with your mental health. I really admire friends who went into secondary. I think I would have quit long ago. Dealing with teenagers would definitely push me over the edge 😂 Kudos to you. At least you tried. ❤

Teaching is the very best job in the world. I love teaching overseas. However Teaching in the UK is the worst job in the world.

The people who go into training teachers are a mixed bunch. The one I knew at Bangor, was a former primary school teacher, trying to teach people to be Secondary English Teachers. She was full of hatred against the English and bullied various English students in the class. I think she thought this immature conduct was proof of her Welsh Nationalist credentials. Her silly teenage-style tantrums, did prepare us to deal with the children in the classroom, who behaved badly, so I guess she did some actual teacher training, without meaning to.

A very informative video. One other reason for the Lithuanians no being visible any more is that many were duped into thinking they would be going to the USA for a better life. Arriving in Grimsby is not everyone’s idea of the promised land and Scotland was not always a first choice but once there they got on with it. Once settled and having the means many would have taken every opportunity to get to America.

I do not think I could be a teacher, as my #1 rule would be to eject any disruptive student from any class. I am also terrible with name-face relation plus i am an introvert, so I totally understand the issue of energy. I have respect for you for even attempting it. For me an orderly class is essential - I suffered when that was not the case when I was a kid - 45 years ago! And that was at a school and a time when this was far less tolerated. Today?

Finished 1 semester of pgde. I utterly loathe this 1 year programme so much and I've just come from my master's degree chemistry. The workload is stupidly overwhelming: assignments, assignments and even assignments during the week when we should have been studying for our exams. And already I have problems sleeping at night because of the dread of next semester, racing through my mind. It's actually putting me off becoming a chemistry teacher as a career path. When I am done with this tedious and frustrating programme, I'm off to do my phd in chemistry. Even my Scottish dad, currently in Kuwait says he's fed up with teaching as well.

I applaud these teachers speaking out on a public platform. I was lucky enough to get old and retire in 2011. Things were rough and had been rough for some time, and it sounds like they're only getting worse. We complained like crazy to everyone who would listen, which was almost no one. Everything this guy talks about is absolutely TRUE. I've decided the only way to get any real change is for the system to totally implode and reinvent everything from scratch. The implosion part will probably happen during the lunatic trump administration, part 2. The reinventing part will take decades. We will lose a generation or two who will learn almost nothing, but it appears that's already happening. We are truly in a Dark Age. Younger teachers who are leaving, and publicly and honestly explaining their reasons, are performing a service. Good luck to you in a more fulfilling life than you would ever have as a teacher.

What is your new business endeavour?

So what next?

Many Lithuanians were called "Poles" back then. Not only called by the others, but sometimes presenting themselves like "Poles" too or writing their names in Polish. It's like some Scots would present themselves "English people", based solely on a fact they speak English or live in the UK. Lithuanians and Poles share the same religion - Catholicism and lived within one Commonwealth, where the majority of Lithuanians learned Polish. What is more, sometimes their surnames were translated to Polish and written down in Polonized forms as most of the priests were coming to Lithuania from Poland and were Poles. Sometimes these priests were telling the illiterate peasants in Lithuanian villages, that "God do not understand Lithuanian", "Good Catholic must be Pole", "Those speaking dirty pagan Lithuanian speech go straight to hell", "Catholic, who speaks Polish, will go to heaven, but those hissing in pagan Lithuanian surely going to hell" (all the many of these examples are in the books and well known for historians and ethnographers). During the uprising against Russia, the proclamation to Lithuanians in Lithuania was telling: "We, Lithuanians, being good Poles, must fight Russia well". In the west Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was seen as simply "Poland". This ignorance was leading to the fact, that they were called simple "Poles" or "Russians" after emigrating to the UK or to the USA. There is an example when Lithuanian, a native of Vilnius - Felix Yaniewicz went to Edinbourg and was a well known musician there in the 19th c. A plaque to Felix Janiewicz is unveiled on 84 Great King Street, Edinburgh. He is simply known as a Pole in Scotland and the UK. Poles present him as a Pole in the UK, in various articles too. So what happened to all the Lithuanians? 🙂

Uhh, you decided you didn't want to torture minors?

Great explanation❤

What happened at Gallipoli? A young colonel named Mustafa Kemal happened! British couldn’t defeat him. Just as Brit supported Greek forces could not defeat him in Turkey’s liberation war a few years later. Gallipoli did not give you what you wanted but it gave us our hero, the saviour and revolutionist of modern Turkey. It gave us “the Father of the Turks”!

I recommend a person volunteer at a job BEFORE going to school for it.

There was nothing to be proud about concerning this conflict. Churchill was clueless as to how organised the Turks could be, and obviously all the troop ships could be seen approaching for miles across the med. So two key aspects for a successful attack were lost. I'm no historian, but I seem to remember that the Turks even put a floating barrage across the Dardanelles to block our ships, then shot them up. It was a complete mess. And to land troops under cliffs is suicide. Even if there wasn't any Turks up there, it would have been torture climbing up. Then there was the weather - roasting when they arrived, then rain and freezing in later months when they were dug in trying to survive. Then re-enforcement's arrived. The guys under fire on the hills could see the troops arrive on the coast in the distance - but they didn't come to relieve them. They were seen making camp on the beach and swimming in the sea. And to add immense insult to injury, when the survivors were evacuated in December 1915 and thought they were sailing home - the lads were told they were actually being dropped off at France - to fight in the mud. Disgraceful abuse of volunteer soldiers.

I'm in my 7th year of teaching middle school science. I'm an introvert and a profectionist. What makes me want to quit are the increasing demands, disrespectful students, long hours, constant exhaustion, and several other factors to list. It's not worth it. Education is not what it once was. It's not what it was seven years ago. I'm looking at going back to school to retool and learn new skills. What's scary is that I'm 47. I already feel like I'm facing agism.

4:45 Let me get this right... You teach history in a RANDOM chronological order?! This is so strange! How do you explain logical processes, how do you explain context that way??? How do you jump from the Great Plague to WW I?? History can only be taught in a chronological order, starting from the first humans and ending with present times. No wonder the kids don't like it. There's no opportunity to understand the essence of history - which is CONTEXT that way. When did this silly practice start in the UK? I'm sure it wasn't the case a few decades ago.

I’m deffo an introvert. Your definition of too many people = socially draining happens to me. Even when teachers speak in the staff room I lose energy. I need to unplug once in a while. I’m also a perfectionist and I’m my worst critic. But after many years of teaching I have become more aware that you gonna have good days and your gonna have mediocre days and that’s how it is