Spare Time.......

Deleted member 28206 · September 30, 2014

Spare what.

harris78 · September 30, 2014

Durham Toffee said:
No. Well...it depends.

I certainly wish I had more free time to see my daughter. Genuinely, that is a very big emotional regret for me. I leave the house at 7am about 10 minutes after she has woken up. I'm usually getting back in the house about 6pm and I have enough time to bath her, put her jim-jams on and get her down for a sleep by 7pm. After that, the wife and I sit with tea and I mark, plan or write reports (which allows me an excuse to come on here for a brief time) until maybe 10pm or so. I get into bed after I have about an hour or so on here before settling down for a kip and starting all over again.

Meaning I get about a quality 30 mins a day with my daughter. I can't really talk to my wife as I am focusing on getting stuff right and that's pretty much repeated every night. I like the career, but the paperwork, the demands, the legal ramification and the constant over-your-shoulder ethos is really stressful at times. I understand I am in a position of great responsibility, but that often comes with little to no trust from those who give you that responsibility - parents, senior leaders, the flipping government, etc.

It's a job, nowadays, where you have to be a teacher, a psychologist, a social worker, an events planner, a sports coach, an administrator, a computer technician, etc.

But what do you do in your 13 weeks off though lid??

Just joking, I could imagine teaching being very stressful!!

Dell Boy · September 30, 2014

harris78 said:
I could imagine teaching being very stressful!!

All jobs are stressful to a degree though.

I guess having a job where you only have to face kids all day, have a union to back you up to ensure its a job for life and cushion it with short days and 13 weeks holiday kind of helps a bit though..

Billy Dean · September 30, 2014

Sometimes when I have spare time I give myself so many choices of things I could do that I end up doing nothing because I can't decide.

AdamEFC · September 30, 2014

Had some spare time today so decided to go to Uni to do some work. Was there 6 hours and I managed to book a holiday, buy some new shoes and sit on GOT and YouTube all whilst doing no work what so ever. Successful day!