I am really down about my job. I have been told how impressive my performance is and felt good about the work I was doing. I work with a partner on some tasks and as she is new I have helped her out alot. I just found out that she is being nominated for an award. I have been striving for this honour all year. I was not nominaed. I feel resentful of all the help I have given her and now question my abilities at my job. I have worked many years to get my degree and work at least 30 overtime hours a week. I put all I have into my work and now I am questioning all of it. What can I do to not feel so down about my job and try not to let her award bother me? I was almost in tears today when I found out.
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My overtime is just the nature of my job. I am a first year teacher and it comes with the territory. I chose to create the best learning experience for my students and it takes time. (We are paid salary so no ot pay)
2007-02-23 13:40:44 · 10 answers · asked by nakiska11111 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Teaching
Let me start off by saying I know how you feel. I have been where you are. It's not a good place. You need to ask yourself if you only did it for the award and recognition. If that answer is yes - then you need to change professions immediately. You are only a first year teacher and believe me - there will be more awards for you in the future. But first you have to do a lot of soul searching to see if you are only doing all this for the recognition or for the countess intrinsic rewards that come with doing a great job. If you will stop and look around I bet you are rewarded everyday with the smiles on your students' faces and as a veteran teacher I can honestly tell you that is enough. I've been around the teaching profession long enough that former students come up to me and tell me what a difference I made in their lives. Thats more precious to me than any plaque or reward. I still work countless hours a week and also on the weekends and I don't regret it. I love my career and I love that I make a difference. I think in time you will feel the same way.
2007-02-23 13:56:18 · answer #1 · answered by Sue T 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've been on award committees. A lot of it is B.S.
So much is being at the right place at the right time and being lucky enough to have someone to remember to nominate you. And by next year no one will remember or care who got the award.
It is more about circumstances than true reflection and every teach knows that. If you care so much about the attaboys - you are so in the wrong field.
Sure, it feels good. We all like pats on the back. But really - isn't the reason why you are there is for the kids!
Be be assured, your good deeds do not go unnoticed even if the go unacknowledged, and what comes around goes around.
See "The Secret"
2007-02-23 14:05:48 · answer #2 · answered by apbanpos 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Awards are just popularity contests. Usually given to the best brown-nosers and Bs'ers. Trust me! The job that you do is for your own personal satisfaction. You do a job that you must enjoy, right? Don't strive harder to win an award! Strive harder to be better at what you do. Someday the reward will come. You have your degree... congrats on that. I've been there myself. But I did that for me, not the recognition or piece of paper. Although now, the paper is nice. Guys are different! When we get the shaft at work we can't cry, so we just suck it up and wish intense pain on the person that gave us that shaft. Keep your chin up lady! The good feelings and rewards are ahead of all the hard work you've done, and no doubt, will do. Don't worry!
2007-02-23 14:14:51 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
T he reason you went into teaching was to give the best education to the children that are and will be entrusted into your care. The reward is the knowledge of what each of these children may become. What a great feeling I have when I run into a student I had that has excelled in an area of life and I think of the very small part I played. What a reward
2007-02-23 13:54:03 · answer #4 · answered by lakelover 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Sue T" is spot on, and I completely understand as well. Teaching is all about the kids, not about how much work you put into it for recognition's sake. But I also know that it is nice to be recognized for your efforts. It's especially hard to be overshadowed by someone you've worked closely with. In the end you need to think about what makes you happy. Do you do this so that you have to work hard and have no social life and get no recognition for it? Or do you do what you do because you love your job and just want to see the kids succeed?
2007-02-23 15:08:32 · answer #5 · answered by j_mo83 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is extremely difficult to not be bothered by her nomination, but it is only the nomination, not the award. You can feel good about the fact that you helped her get the nomination.
My guess is that many of your peers were unaware that you wanted recognition. Part of getting nominated is blowing your own horn and you sound like the type of person who wants people to notice you without having to call attention to yourself. Unfortunately, it doesn't work like that. In my previous career, I trained one guy and six months later he was promoted above me AND my supervisor. I found out later he had been playing golf with his new boss prior to his promotion.
I guess it just depends on what you are willing to do to market yourself.
2007-02-23 15:56:20 · answer #6 · answered by RDW928 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-01 21:34:26 · answer #7 · answered by wallin 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't let it affect your job. Remember the reason you got into teaching: the kids. They're the important ones and your legacy will last longer through them than by getting an award.
2007-02-23 13:49:21 · answer #8 · answered by Syxx 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you've entered teaching for the accolades, someone has horribly misguided you. You need to realize now that education has intrinsic rewards, rarely monetary or otherwise. You need to get over yourself and do what you're paid to do. TEACH.
2007-02-23 15:10:47 · answer #9 · answered by luv2teech2001 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
don know
is she wearing shorter skirts than u
forget bout recognition
your kids all still love ya right
trust me u don wanna be down here in private industry
it's all hand 2 hand combat with scumbag managers
2007-02-23 13:47:15 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋