Why I left teaching 

Teaching was the worst profession I've been in. I'm earning double as an engineer now.

Thanks for the update, glad all is going well for you and excited to hear about life after teaching! I took a break when I had my babies and I never regret it. Its great you have a part time job doing what is clearly your passion! 😁

We still need excellent teacher's in schools for those who want to become teachers keep going hold on we need you❤

Thank you for your honesty. Yes, teaching can consume a large part of a person's life, and it can be hard to shut off from the profession once you arrive home from a long day. It is all about finding a proper balance and protecting your peace. It is about setting boundaries and realizing that the work will always be there and you have to find ways to manage the load. Take care.

I found your channel when I first started teaching and I then came across you again a couple of days after I handed in my notice! Best of luck with everything ❤

Good to hear from you, I was always thinking what you were up to now, thanks for updating.

I have loads of friends in the UK and they think Americans work way too much, can’t take sick days, etc. I 100% agree but was always curious to compare apples to apples, teachers to teachers. I work 8:05-3:35 and it seems like UK teachers (in the day in the life vlogs anyway) work WAY harder than I do. I’m glad you were able to take some time off when you were unwell. That’s something we couldn’t do in the US. Congrats on your little boy and on your decision to leave teaching. Sounds like it was a tough choice.

You’re so easy to listen to ☺️ I’ve found myself in a similar boat. I had my little one last year and just returned from mat leave. I feel like I’m not myself anymore and I’m constantly so anxious. I have started up an online business when I was off that’s going really well and have 99.9% decided that I’m taking the leap but just need the guts to go in and tell them that 🤦🏼‍♀️

As much as I detested teaching overall and had virtually no respect for what was going on around me in the places where I taught I will concede one point and that is this: although I used to fake all of my lesson plans, dashingly them off on the typewriter off the top of my head, I would read the textbooks in advance while doing this, and also write my own exams especially when teaching the self contained parochial class I had, but yet the actual teaching in front of the class cannot be faked, so I don’t want to appear overly cavalier, for lack of a better word. But I was extremely old fashioned and would force them to do all of their reading in class in front of me while I alternated between spying on them and grading papers and so forth this appearing to work quite nicely. I am not a big believer in homework. I was a severe disciplinarian for which I was always criticized being a crazy ex-submariner and then subsequently a typical merchant marine drunkard, but did get excellent results as a GED tutor after I got tired of working with kids and nuns, which was not a pretty picture, in all candor. And yes, I would attend cocktail parties at the convent and drain half a fifth of Johnny Walker Red or Cutty perhaps, and get made fun of by the nuns who’d ask me if I needed clothespins to prop my eyes open to which I would respond “no thank you, I have excellent tolerance for scotch because I’m a functional alcoholic being a Whiskeypalian”. So in other words, just because teaching is basically a joke that is not to imply that it is by any stretch easy. I don’t recommend it. I became a barber ultimately after shipping out for eight years with the merchant marine. The thing about barbering is you just wing it. If you’re busy all day you make lots of money and if it’s slow you can read at work.

Thanks for sharing! I'm studying to be a teacher and it's really hard , it's rewarding, but sometimes it's necessary to take a rest. Hugs and blessings to your lovely family from Mexico , I hope you keep making these kind of videos. 💙 My question is...are you going to work in another thing? Or full- time mom ? Sorry for my bad English. Also can you give us some tips about teaching in the UK , because I want to move there. Thanks 😊

Wow… the state of teaching if they’ve lost you! You were so hardworking and committed to it. Maybe a return in the future when your boy is older? All the best :)

She's doing this video as part of her job. Good way to promote tptc products. Made me look.

Hi! I’ve found this video really interesting. I am a Secondary School Student and will soon be choosing my GCSEs. I have strongly considered a teaching as my first choice of Career so far, wanting to teach at a UK Secondary School, but I have heard a lot of negatives on the job and obviously the pay is less than ideal, but even in school, I am already a mentor and I enjoy working with younger pupils and am determined that this is the career I want to pursuit, I was wondering if you had any advice for someone in my position. Also, I would probably teach Geography or MFL so I was wondering which other GCSE subjects would be smart to take on top of the necessary ones. Thank you!

Good to hear from you. I’m looking to do something similar. Were you still entitled to maternity pay even though working freelance? Thanks!

U gone forever then? No more videos?

Hey, I want to be a primary school teacher I’ve got 4s in my maths,English, science however I did not take a language do you think this will be a massive issue when I apply for some teacher roles?

When are you going back to school

Hi destroy lady so I wanted to ask you this question for awhile now unfortunately you haven’t been posting to couldn’t ask you this question have you had COVID-19? And what was it like?

Hello Many thanks for your lovely video. I’m a teacher myself, I would like to start a side job along side my teaching career. I’m a highly creative person and love displaying unique displays/ decorations for classrooms. Could you advise me on how to build an additional career based on my skills? Thank you in advance.

You was in my school hiya g we can talk like bros now

I must say you do seem a lot more animated after leaving teaching. In other videos you always seemed to have a metaphorical weight on your shoulder but not you seem a lot more …. Yourself??? I don’t know. And as you said in a past vlog, “The government wants an all singing , all dancing curriculum but there just isn’t enough hours to do it all”. Sometimes in life you just need to evaluate wether it’s worth it and appearing from your present personality I would say you made the right call even though the profession has lost a talented teacher. I’m just about to start a primary education with QTS degree in September so I’m going to have to go down my own journey and see where I end up. You have shown that ‘teachers’ aren’t ‘teachers’ but people with a job in teaching with their own worries and problems other than that in the classroom. How would you say the teaching profession could improve to have a better work life balance?