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I think the article is talking about a different kind of burnout. He mentions that teaching is more difficult than his corporate jobs, and I think that’s where most of us (myself included) are burned out. But teaching does have a direct, transformative impact on thousands of lives, and that’s where he’s finding his rewards. It’s something you don’t get in much of corporate America.
My father just retired, but he used to work with nuclear calcine and was one of the leading experts in the country on the subject. I don’t know that he regrets his career, but he pointed out to me last summer that he’ll be just a name on a bunch of reports after a decade. By contrast, he can still remember almost every teacher he ever had, including many of his college professors. He feels their overall impact to be more “rewarding” than his. So the burnout and the reward are differently sourced in education vs the corporate sector. This gives us different perspectives.
It’s absolutely the last thing I would suggest to help with burn out lol
That is pretty hilarious. Going to send this to my teacher's group chat, we're all burnt out and most of us are looking for non-teaching work-from-home jobs. Highschool I could see being less stressful maybe, but elementary??
6th grade? Oof.
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The biggest takeaway here is that not everybody is meant to do every job. When teaching starts to drive me nuts, I imagine myself in a cubicle for 8 hours a day and quickly snap out of it. Doing some corporate desk job would be torture, as far as I'm concerned.
On the flip side, working with kids would send a lot of people to the asylum. You have to have a certain type of personality to do this job. The way you have to think on your feet to adapt to the wide array of personalities and ability levels is not easy, and let's face it, kids can just be maddening at times. Then there's the pay...
Now, we all deal with the same crap from the "management" side of things. There are plenty of pointy-haired bosses in academia, too. The staff meetings, the paperwork, the new "initiative" every other week, we've definitely got some common ground. That aside, picking a career based on your personality can be every bit as important as picking one based on the annual salary.
Different things burn out different people, and there are different kinds of burnout. Sounds like he feels like he's got purpose now, and that may last for a while. Odds are he'll be burned out from teaching in a few years.