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Confusion about career\life choices stressing me out

  • 14-03-2009 4:12pm
    #1
    LegacyUser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,026 ✭✭✭✭


    Hi there ,

    I`m 26 years old and I have just started a postgraduate in teaching . I graduated from uni with an arts degree and spent a lot of time in different jobs , shops , buliding sites , TEFL , restaraunts etc ,travelling , treading water , not really interested/decided or mature enough for a serious career .

    I have just started my teaching practice on the course , and although I enjoy the children ,I just think Im not the personality suited for it . I find I really have to force playing the role of the authority figure , its like pretending to be a different person than I really am , its like being fake all day and it is really draining for me . I like the children but I dont want to be the person telling them to stop having fun and to pretend to be angry to get them in line . I also find it hard to discipline myself to plan etc , I have been thinking that I might be more suited to something like psychiatric nursing , I have an idea in my head that it would be a job where I could be myself and use my social skills . I have a lot of mentally ill relations in my family and i studied psychology in my degree and was very interested in it .I also like the idea of not having the responsibilty of planning for the education of 30 kids .Maybe I m just Lazy .

    There are other factors as well such as time pressures I put on myself to get going on a career so that i can have security to meet someone and settle down , the pressures of money and how I would save to go on a psych nursing course ,The pressures of living like a student for a long time as opposed to just a few more months if I stick to teaching , but then end up in a job I really find difficult and akward but has a secure income.

    There is also another part of me that is uncertain as to wether my itchy feet about my course is me balking at a challenge and being a chicken ****, being lazy and not just grabbing the bull by the horns and suffering through , or that it is a genuine sign for me to go and look somewhere else . I mean if I go and do psych nursing will I look for exscuses when they put me on the ward during training and will I try to find another way out ? I m not really sure . Where is the line between hard hard work for a vocation that you know you want to take on and do , and absolute hell hard work that lets you know this is not for me and I need to find something more suitable to my own skills /aptitutdes .

    If anyone has been in a similar conundrum or has any insights into these careers or any helpful guidance please tell


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  • #2
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,729 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Stick with it. Similarly a new cop will be in it to be a face in the neighbourhood and help people, but you still gotta get tough sometimes and arrest some people and see some things you never really wanted to see. But the rewards will still be there, like watching your efforts go into some of those students as they start doing better. New teachers always have it rough, we can all smell fresh meat. With a little time you'll find the right groove between being in charge and being yourself.


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