How's the start to your year going? I am having terrible burnout, but then beat myself up for abandoning my students when I think about it. Anyone else experience this?

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I’m just exhausted. It’s like I need to picture myself doing something else but can’t either

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Yes, I’m fairly new to the field and work with especially challenging students. Despite only being in my 3rd year, I have stayed in the job longer than any other teacher before me (the 8th teacher in 10 years). And it breaks my heart every time I think about leaving or getting a different job but it also breaks my spirit when I have to make stupid sacrifices because of administrative ignorance or indifference.

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I am struggling more this year too.
I caught my self looking at job sites.
15 years in and I'm tired. I feel like I work harder every year for less results.
That you worry that you are abandoning the students means you still care; if you were thinking F or get'em I'd say it was time to get serious about what is next.
I'm finally starting to shake my funk after 4 weeks, take a mental health day and try to find at least 1 good thing for each bad.
Hang in there, I bet the good work you do is worth the BS you deal with.

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