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Teacher is no more stressful then an Electrician as Adam said or a Software Developer like me. I have huge stress coding and meeting tight deadlines for business's critical things. I also work over (unpaid) pretty much every day.




I disagree. There is stress in all jobs, but some jobs are more stressful than others, including Stu's and mine. I invite anyone to spend the day working with me Yes, we chose our careers, but it was to a make a difference and for job satisfaction (from my viewpoint - can't speak for Stu!). I was planning to start contributing to a pension scheme early next year, now that I have paid for all of my further training, so I'm not affected in the way that others are. But I don't think the current plans are fair for those already contributing. What really infuriates me is the bad press surrounding the situation - reports suggest that numbers of applications are down for medical, nursing and allied health professional courses at universities, whilst the drop-out rates are increasing and this is linked. Not sure if this can be transferred to all other public sector workers, but this is disgraceful. Other systems need badly revising, such as the benefits scheme
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