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Ex-teacher: I saw a lot of teachers who were looking for a way out.

After five years I was out of the game, not least because of ill health related to stress from teaching.

After a stroke at 34 (despite life long hypotension) I called it quits in teaching even though my CVA was minor and full recovery has almost happened, now six years on.

I tried to go back...two days in the trenches and I was sick again.

Now, that is me, but I did see a lot of other teachers, many only in their mid-20's, who were looking for a way out: they loved the teaching, but it was the sheer out-of-hours load, extra-curriculars and the salary and low social standing that irked them.

We all went into it with eyes open, but the true cost of the job can take a few years to truly manifest.

Teaching is not the only job like this, but it is possibly one of the largest industries where employees are hampered by their work being thought of as purely a vocation: and that in choosing pedagogy one must cop such flak.