the clarifier wrote:
Interesting that no one has mentioned preparing lessons, correcting papers, working on school-assigned projects, contacting parents, (your fave here_____)during the outside school hours.
Because most of the people responding are P.E. teachers. P.E. teachers do not have to do lesson plans and rarely have to call parents and are almost never assigned outside work because they rarely show up and do it.
To this day I wish I had gone the P.E. route
Wake up 4:45 AM
5:30-7:00 Run/workout
7:00-8:00 Tutor AP kids (yes every morning. These kids are very anal about making the perfect grade)
8:00-3:30 Teach/with a 1:00 hour planning period where I have to eat lunch standing up in the cafeteria watching kids
3:30-6:00 Coach/XC/Indoor/Outdoor head coach all three. I make less combining all three sports together than the third assistant on the football team. 2 state championships in the last 5 years on top of that. FB team hasn't won a game in 2 years.
6:00-7:00 Eat with the wife
7:00-8:-- Call parents/lesson plan/grade stupid AP essays (yes almost every night)
9:00 Sleep
Repeat until summer then practice every morning from 8:00-11:00 AM
It's very hard to get in the mileage, teach, and coach all at the same time. Either coach or be a runner. Do not try to do both at the same time. Specially if you are married. You can always coach later in your life when you are done running competitively.
Love my job but I sure do envy the P.E. teachers. I'm sure they will come on here and say how tough their job is though.
I'm fairly young (31) but as soon as I have kids my wife has already told me I'm going to have to stop coaching. Not enough money to justify the time I spend doing it weekdays and weekends.
In some areas teaching can be very easy with very little time commitment. In some areas it requires a lot of time commitment just like a lot of other jobs. Teachers are not special in that way.