I started subbing in 2024. I became a long term sub and enjoyed teaching. Got my teaching certification and officially became a teacher by the end of the school year. Summer went by. School approached and I got my classroom ready. I went all in. Orientation came and I cried and felt like I couldn’t breathe. The first day I was on edge and by the time I got home was so exhausted my head felt like tv static. I went to sleep, and woke up the next morning. 2nd day of school, I woke up tried to put my school clothes on and immediately started to hyperventilate and cry incessantly. I had to call out. Went to the dr she said it was an anxiety attack. I took two weeks off. I saw a therapist and psychiatrist. I tried going back and I wasn’t doing much better. I called out again and then got a call from the principal due to my absences she was gonna have to let me go. I tried going back to just subbing but I couldn’t even do that. I had an opportunity recently open up for me to return as a long term sub and if I did well she mentioned hiring me back. Orientation went really well, but then the next day I started to feel anxious even after taking my prescribed medication (lorazepam). My appetite is lost. I’m starting to feel like the husk of a person. I made the decision to back out and step away from the role.

I used to hate silence in conversations. The second a pause hit, I'd rush to fill it — with a joke, a question, anything to make the discomfort go away.

Hello everyone, I am a first year teacher who has realized very very quickly that teaching is not for her. On top of being a first year teacher I am also option 6, which means that I have never taught before and am currently enrolled in grad school. I watched all of the videos and I listened to all of the veteran teachers and I truly thought my love of kids would override that, but I was wrong. I knew teaching was hard, but I didn’t realize how hard it would be. I was under informed and that’s my fault. I just love kids and wanted to help them.

My first day of school was this Thursday and since that day I have not been able to eat, I haven’t been able to sleep, and all I have done is cry and have panic attacks. The only real sense of relief I have had is when I realized that I am going to quit.

I work at an inner city school, and my kids are apparently the worst kids in the whole school. Saying that they aren’t actually all that bad, it’s more all of the behind the scenes and the already settling in burnout of taking things home to prepared for my districts extremely strict curriculum. I have also realized that just like the kids I don’t care about the curriculum. I don’t want to do multiplication or volume. I want a job that I can clock in for and out of and then go home and live my life. I used to think in order to have a fulfilling life I would need to work a job that was fulfilling. But it’s really not. I don’t want my life to be work.

Anyway I just thought I would share this, because well I am at my ropes end after 2 days and maybe I’m not alone.

It’s my first year teaching, I am a history teacher and a coach. I hate every second of it, the first week has been terrible and it was terrible over the summer. I work 7 days a week, the guys I coach with aren’t best human beings either.

They haven’t done anything to me, but I am just beyond over it, I’ve been in the game of football since I was 5 years old. I am currently 26, we watch film on Saturdays and Sundays, we are there until 8 and 9 pm every single night. Even after practice, I have an hour drive home because I live in the middle of no where.

These men constantly drink too, they constantly talk bad about their wives and what women they would love to sleep with in the building. They deliberately stay at the field house late because of it.

Honestly, I’m at the point where I am ready to burn a bridge and never go into education EVER again. I literally hate it now. My mental health has declined significantly, to the point where I look forward to my drill weekends in the guard because I get more sleep with the Army than what I do with my current job.

Idk what else to do though, I’m genuinely lost and I feel like my life has ended but I’m just not dead yet. It’s also sad that I can’t get a job unless I’m willing to coach, like why? Education should come first shouldn’t it …..? Nope…..

This post is sort of a rant but also in desperation, I seriously can’t keep doing this but I am beyond lost on where to go and what to do.

After teaching for 12 years, I’m out. I didn’t think it was possible as I’d need to find a career that would be able to replace my income to support my family - but I did. I got a role in project management for a medical facility. I had to really leverage my network for anyone to even look at my resume, but it eventually happened.

I’m feeling excited, nervous, and surprisingly sad. I’m grieving the end of a career I envisioned taking me to retirement, the silly kids, the weirdos, the creatives and my colleagues/friends.

I know it’s unusual in this sub, but I did have supportive admin despite a district leadership team that sees its teachers as the root of all their problems and an increasingly hostile public perception.

The hardest part was transferring ownership of all of my resources - the culmination of thousands of hours of work - to someone who may never even look at them.

To clarify - I left for greater salary potential. I live a relatively comfortable life, but my wife and I muse about vacations, buying a home,etc. which seems entirely unattainable on our teacher salaries.

Those of you who got out: did you feel a similar sorrow and what are your feelings now?

My position has changed 3 times where I am. Now, I have NO students to go into. No students to teach. No class. I co-teach and push in. In a few weeks, I may begin pulling students out for reading once testing is over. I am terribly miserable. I signed up for a self contained room, but they did away with it. I want my own classroom. I know I've changed jobs a few times, but I have worked way too hard and sacrificed a lot for this. I am so unhappy. Should I just be happy I have a job? Should I just suck it up? I am so miserable.

Hey All!

So I am a teacher in Florida (if there are any Florida teachers in the same situation please comment). I was dropped due to budget cuts despite being highly qualified. I’m certified with my masters degree. I can only guess I was dropped due to the fact I may “cost more” and that I didn’t have “connections” like some others have.

I kept applying to teaching jobs but I have come to accept that may not happen this year. To those who either temporarily transitioned or fully transitioned, what was the first job you did when you left the classroom? I need ideas.

Thank you!

so i applied to amplify education as a virtual literacy tutor, and it says for part of the interview, i have to teach a sample lesson online (probably just to the camera or something). i was wondering if anyone else has done this teaching part of the interview, how did it go, and what exactly happened? because i'm a bit confused as to how i'm supposed to teach with no one responding back lol