Should I become a high school social studies teacher or a lawyer?

Having at one time been married to a high school teacher, I can promise you three things:

1. You'll be working at home 7 nights a week.

2. You'll be working at home all summer.

3. You'll hate most of your students parents. They'll not like you very well, either, because it's YOUR FAULT Johnny failed. And don't deny it.

Having at one time been married to a high school teacher, I can promise you three things:

1. You'll be working at home 7 nights a week.

2. You'll be working at home all summer.

3. You'll hate most of your students parents. They'll not like you very well, either, because it's YOUR FAULT Johnny failed. And don't deny it.

 

br0kenrabbit

4. A section of society will hate you in general because they think public schooling is a scam.

5. A section of society will call you a filthy freeloader for "having summer off."

6. You'll probably wind up hating a good deal of your students because they whine about the teaching material.

Why not teach in college? High school would be awful.ghoklebutter

Why would I be working all summer?ayaqoob1

You are expected to keep up your qualifications and certifications, to attend training and various other seminars (CPR, identifying students with learning disabilities, identifying abuse, etc.), and on day 1 of class you need to have the entire year already planned out.

Lawyer. 

Lawyer

you can get paid ok/underpaid to deal with kids 

or

paid more but more boring job

pick your poison 

i say a teacher 

Choosing a career just because of the money is a stupid thing to do.

Why would I be working all summer?ayaqoob1

How should we know?  Your job decision centers around your preferences.

The question is, do you  enjoy going to school? Did you enjoy teaching? Do you enjoy being around kids? Or do you enjoy the law and arguing with people? Do you want to see criminals put to justice (prosecutor)? Of course, there are a lot of different kinds of lawyers.

Lawyer. Its only 3 more years in college. You can work as much as you want. 

I'd say teacher, surely the pay is not good, but imo its more fun than being a lawyer. Not sure about how hign schools in America are like, but in Australia the teachers are like friends and we used to joke around and everybody is happy.

Niether, both jobs cost you your soul.

I'd say teacher, surely the pay is not good, but imo its more fun than being a lawyer. Not sure about how hign schools in America are like, but in Australia the teachers are like friends and we used to joke around and everybody is happy.

stevoqwerty

Become a lawyer, IMO it pays better and is a more exciting job it gives you more chances to see different sides of society. But if your comfortable with teaching, than that's what you should be I suppose.

You don't have to interact with igh school students as much as a lawyer, so choose that.