Sitting up late/on the weekend grading still sucks. I didn't say it was stressful (in the sense biglaw is stressful), but it definitely sucks. Besides, I was countering DF's point that teachers don't work long hours. I didn't say they weren't on your own accord (except that generally they're not really of your own accord. Just because it's your classroom and you don't have a tyrannical midlevel handing you work doesn't mean the work doesn't still have to get done). Whether you work long hours as a teacher depends more on where you're teaching, not choice once you are teaching.smallfirmassociate wrote:A lot of people with sweet gigs work a lot of hours. Doesn't mean they have to. Working long hours on your own accord isn't a stressful activity.A. Nony Mouse wrote:I'm not saying teaching is/isn't better than biglaw, but don't go getting ridiculous. Lots of teachers work long hours. All of them? Probably not. But going home at the end of the day and grading things sucks. Again, more than biglaw? I have no idea. But you don't have to say "teaching is a cush job" to prove biglaw sucks. False dichotomy, bro. There are lots of different ways that crappy jobs can suck.
And DF, I think it's hard in the sense that guaranteeing good results is hard, and there are tons of variables entirely out of the teacher's control which they still have to deal with. And in some contexts the hours are long, just not all. Not biglaw long, but that's not saying much. I guess I'd say the hours are long compared to 1) pay (in a lot of places, I know it varies), and 2) the "it takes 9 minutes to prep a school day for 8 year olds bro" camp. But no, not biglaw long.