I am a rural primary school teacher who has been working in rural areas for 14 years.
Actually, I don't like being a teacher, when I graduated from middle school, my father asked me to take the teacher training exam, and the normal students at that time could be assigned jobs after graduation.
I turned down my dad's offer and went to high school. During the college entrance examination, the score was not high, and I could only go to a junior college, and I was not interested in filling in the volunteers.
My dad asked me to fill in the normal school, so I filled in a random school. When I was in my junior year, my father asked me to graduate and go back to my hometown to take the teacher recruitment exam, but I really didn't want to be a teacher, so I signed up for the college entrance exam.
I didn't get into the undergraduate college entrance examination, but I didn't expect to be admitted to the undergraduate program after three years in college. The biggest reason may be that the Chinese language and literature major I applied for did not take the mathematics test.
Math was my shortcoming, and after high school, I never failed math. I didn't take the math test for the college entrance examination, so I was successfully admitted.
When I graduated from junior college, I got a junior high school teacher qualification certificate, and when I graduated from my bachelor's degree, I got a high school teacher qualification certificate.
I have two teaching qualifications in hand, but I still didn't take the teacher recruitment exam after graduation. I worked in Shanghai for a year, but the salary was too low, so I quit my job.
When I returned to my hometown city, I opened a mother and baby products store, but I didn't make any money, and after opening it for less than a year, I transferred the store.
Two years after graduation, I didn't save a little money in my hands. I tossed enough, and I didn't want to toss, so I finally took the teacher recruitment exam.
After going around and around for so many years, I finally became a teacher.
The job of a teacher was very good at the beginning. Although the wages were low at that time, there were few things. Except for class, there are basically no other chores to do, as long as you concentrate on teaching.
In recent years, teachers' salaries have increased a little, but there are more and more chores outside of teaching, and the educational environment is getting worse and worse.
I don't know if it's because of the burnout period after working for a long time, or because there are too many trivial things outside of teaching, but in the past two years, there will be thoughts of quitting from time to time.
The meeting was announced on Monday, and next week it will be checked again, and a lot of materials will be done. A colleague has been saying he doesn't want to do it anymore in recent days. Complaining that the salary is too little, there are too many things, and I want to quit.
She belongs to a group of contract teachers who have purchased services, only has a basic salary, and the contract has been signed for three years, and I don't know how the education bureau will arrange for them after the contract expires.
Actually, I don't want to do it myself, but I still advise my colleagues to think twice.
I told her what motivated me to keep working. Whenever I thought about quitting, I would stand upstairs and look at the sanitation workers on the road.
It's raining today, it's windy and it's very cold. In this bad weather, the sanitation workers still patrol back and forth on the road, stopping from time to time to clean up the garbage on the road.
Most of the sanitation workers in rural areas are in their sixties. The salary of 800 yuan per month is so low, and there are many elderly people who are willing to do it.
Although the sanitation workers are not very tired, they have to go to work regardless of the wind and rain, or the cold and heat, and they do not rest even in the Chinese New Year's Eve.
I was in my air-conditioned office, watching the sanitation workers sweeping the roads in the wind and rain, and the thought of quitting immediately disappeared from my mind.
No matter what the salary is, at least this job is stable, and I can receive a monthly pension after retirement, so that I don't have to worry about life in old age.
Every time I think I don't want to do it, I take a look at the old sanitation workers. Their lives may not be difficult, but they should be not easy.
Ordinary people, without a good family background, have no one to rely on, they can only rely on themselves.
No matter how difficult the job is, I have to continue to do it, and I still point to this job to support my family. When I think about it, I have the motivation to continue working.