Teachers

[Rainbow09]

@Sahar02

Sara, People see it as a waste in a lot of instances, particularly for men.

Also, do you know how many Pakistanis have asked why I am teaching when I am an intelligent woman? It’s like smart people are being wasted upon the teaching profession! Why teach when I could have been a doctor?? Teachers are often seen as women passing time until marriage. Some teachers are given more respect, but rarely. I’ve had so many arguments about my choice of profession with Pakistanis, and it all comes down to the fact that you don’t make as much money as you potentially can. I have tried countless time to talk about quality of life, passion for a career, etc, but that just doesn’t make sense to them.

huma – I’ve never seen the relationships you describe amongst Pakistanis. I definitely see that here in the US. I’ve been invited into students’ homes. I regularly invite my senior class into my home at the end of the year. They all have me on their Facebook (once they graduate). They excitedly tell me about their plans and lives outside of the class.

I sooo get where your coming from. Whenever I’ve told family/friends that I’m going to do a teaching degree at uni next year, I get the funniest (in a bad way) looks. I get told I can be “anything” I want to, why would I pick teaching out of all careers, its typical and apparently its worse because I’ve picked Primary education (teaching kids aged 5-11). And no matter how much I try to explain my views on teaching and the reasons behind me wanting to do it, its useless because they aren’t willing to see things from any other perspective that different to theirs. Silly people :hinna: