11/02/2025
I always remember when I realised I was ready for something different, something easier on my health than teaching.
(TBH I'd always known deep down that teaching wasn't right, but I had become a professional at blocking it out)
Day-to-day things in teaching became so intensely frustrating. I think it was because I'd made a decision to care for myself, and my body was urging me to leave even quicker as a result!
Things like the young, jumped-up teacher schmoozing the headteacher.
Or having to sit for 2 hours and mark books (for the children never to read the comments) 🤦♀️😔
Or sitting through another meeting where they wanted you to add yet more admin to your day like you were a magician. 🤹
It's like the noise got louder, so I needed to be ready every day to prove to myself that I was taking action.
In every available pocket of time.
On every workday so that I could balance my frustration.
When you start something big that your whole body gets excited about (this is what happened to me), you need to be prepared for the times your body will fight even louder to exit the situation BEFORE you can afford to leave.
The reality is that we all need time to build the THING.
So here's what worked for me: to keep my nervous system from going into overdrive and causing my chronic fatigue symptoms to return.
I wrote down one thing I was going to do or work on per day, which was going to get me closer to my goal.
Then, at the end of the work period, normally between 4 and 6 in McDonald's or Costa, I would take just 5 minutes to really celebrate ticking the THING off or the time I had spent working. To visualise a couple of things I wanted in my future when I finally left teaching.
I visualised being able to have coffee with Dave at any point we wanted to during the day.
6 years from when I started.
Now we can.
I visualised taking a dog for a run on the beach. (My cavalier Jasper, whose death was the catalyst for all of this in 2018, had passed, so I imagined a sheepdog)
We now have Sasha, who is a sheepdog cross from Romania, and I take her swimming in the ocean. In Malta and now in Cornwall. 🌊
6 years sounds like a lot of work.
Yes, but I didn't have a great mentor who'd gone before me at this point and who would help me avoid mistakes.
Also, yes, it took me a while, and this is why doing something you enjoy as you build is important.
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