Being a teacher! - by Amanda Nogueira

Working as a teacher is challenging, with so many good points and bad points.
Into the group of good things about being a teacher we have:
- Do the work without a boss watching you;
- Do what you want to do in class… what I mean in this case is: if you are in a bad day, that you´re tired or sad for example, you can just ask for the students to read and answers some questions from a book, or simply, check the notebooks;
- Another thing that´s good is the fact that you can plan your own schedule, which is more flexible than in other jobs where you may work 40 hours a week;
- Yet, if you need to be absent probably there will be a substitute for you, a person who will do your work for you, and that way, your boss (in this case “the principal”) won´t mind a lot about your absence, even because you have the right to be absent !
- And the best thing is: this profession is the only one that you can have a vacation twice a year, approximately around 60 days!!!!
… it´s a pity that there is a bad side in being a teacher (as all in the life)…
- To be a teacher means you have to be patient, very patient, but if you weren´t born with this gift certainly you should develop it;
- Eventually, you will have to go to a pathologist to check your vocal cords, because of the intensity (high! Almost all time) that you often have to speak in class, if you want to be listened;
- It would be good to do a “life insurance” because nowadays you take the risk to have your life threatened;
- And, to conclude, if you want to be rich, you should look for another job, unless you take a job as a teacher in a good private school/university or, if you are approved in an open competition to work in a Public or Federal University.
Well, I´m going to stop here to avoid getting depressed, after all, I´m a teacher too (just in my free time...)!