Linda's Meta-learning Journal

OK first off a warning about the perils of RSS. I wrote a blog entry which was intended to be kept as a draft and not published, hit the wrong button and woosh! So I did the obvious thing and deleted the entry. Fine - no harm done? Wrong! The RSS feed had already been picked up by the Blog of Blogs so now everyone who reads that has been treated to my end of tether moan about feeling like quitting the degree.
The only thing I can say is that 'feeling like quitting' and actually doing it are a million miles apart! I feel like quitting quite a lot of the time and have done for about a year now. However there is absolutely no way that I would actually give in to that feeling. I know from bitter experience what it feels like to walk away in year 3 of a degree and there is no way that I would do that again under any circumstances. So when I say I 'feel like' doing it I am just expressing my feelings of despair, giving vent to them, trying to face them, feel them and not let them have any power over me.
And yes, some of the time I am quite unhappy in my job. My school is not a comfortable place to be these days. There have been some changes in my role that have mean I spend less time supporting children, which is the bit I actually liked, and far too much time supporting teachers, which I don't. It's not an uncommon complaint amongst support staff.