Teaching is a nice job for many people, especially when you are being paid well at the school you are working with. E.g Civil servant
But for me, teaching is a no-go area. I don’t have the vibe nor the strength for it!
I’m talking about teaching primary or secondary school students where I need to explain and explain better before they can understand a bit of it.
I don’t know if I’m the only one who doesn’t like a teaching job, Please don’t bring it to my table because I will tell ‘thank you’ but can you please take it along with you?
I don’t know how teachers survive but to me, it is just too frustrating
After secondary school in this part of my country many people go into teaching in private schools of which most of my friends did, while waiting for admission.
But sincerely I really can’t tell the type of experience I could have had with teachers that could have made me detest teaching this much
I have a younger sister, anytime she comes home with her assignments, she comes straight to me to help her with it and once I start explaining the same thing twice and she is not getting it, it gets me really pissed.
One thing I understand about a teaching job is that for you to be fruitful you need a lot of patience
And please I don’t have it!!
There are countless individual differences that one needs to understand as a teacher.
All students can’t learn at the same pace. But for me, I don’t have what it takes to understand that.
How can I be teaching you all the same things and some will understand and some won’t, do I need to open your head for you to understand?
I had a real experience of teaching when I went for teaching practice I never planned for. I registered for guidance & counseling, how come I have to teach, but I do have a choice? Of course No, I don’t, and of course I don’t want an extra year. I did it, but I really did not enjoy it at all.
Firstly , my choice of school was not a good idea. I was to teach junior class of JSS1-JSS3, It was really stressful coupled with the fact that the higher ups were not encouraging.
Furthermore, in this my country, I can never work for an electricity (Power) supply company,
let’s dive into the reasons.
I found myself in a country where the power supply is not good. Occasionally, it takes weeks and days before power can be restored.
And every month you see these people coming out to collect bills/payment for the power
Is it the one I use or the one I didn’t? That question is not for them. Thank God for the invention of the prepaid meter. Before prepaid, Nepa will give you one hour power supply but will bring the bill for 24 hours usage.
Since I was of a young age, even until now, I don’t like seeing them going around with their ladder
The worst thing is that if they bring the light you will hear “the mad ones have restored power”( in Yoruba “awon were ti muna wa”) they will give them another curse when they seize power.
The curse is a turn-off already for me, we know it’s not really their fault, it's about the country. But they are the only ones we can pass aggression on.
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