Week 297 - I like my job, but...

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To be an elementary school teacher in this country, you have to enjoy being in the classroom with children and want to impart knowledge and joy to them. That was something I didn’t know until seven years ago. I studied to basically be a lab rat, and my first jobs were as a chemical analyst, but due to circumstances in life, I started teaching at an elementary school, and BOOM, I liked it. This profession has filled me with joy. Every time you plan something and the results are successful, you feel that it has been worth it. Every time your students advance academically and you achieve a change in their behavior or emotionally, you feel fulfilled. These are feelings that I never had in my old jobs, nor do I think I could have had them.

But it’s a profession that doesn’t give you the financial satisfaction you expect, which sometimes makes you feel discouraged and want to run away, because your paycheck doesn’t last a day, and even so, you try not to abandon the children and continue to give your best for them. I don’t know if it’s like this in every country or just here, but every day there are more administrative demands and paperwork to submit, sometimes from one day to the next, as if nothing had been planned, and in the end, teachers are made to work at breakneck speed and, as we sometimes say, just to COMPLY. I think that’s asking for more than what is given. Not to mention the attempt to involve teachers in politics, which I don’t think should happen, because we work for children and the important thing is that a teacher has a vocation and does their job, achieving satisfactory results with their students.

Well, despite everything that is not right and that I would like to see change at some point, first and foremost, I would like to receive fair monetary compensation for my work, because I love my job and that is why I get up every day to give a little bit of myself to each of my students. Perhaps with that financial incentive, I would not mind the increase in administrative requirements. But here we are, still fighting. Tomorrow is Monday, and I’m going to school to welcome my students and do what I love to do.