The JOY of Teaching...

OK, here's the REAL thing teachers love:

IT ENDS.

Not your career (although that does eventually end). The school year. There is nothing quite as refreshing as the day or moment when you look at the calendar, consider your "To Do" list, and realize that you only have a couple of things before you can prepare your Final Exam and be FINISHED!

Almost every other job simply has a constant drudgery to it, where you do essentially the same things over and over, looking forward to 2 weeks where you (theoretically) don't think about work.

In teaching, every year comes to an end, where you put everything away for awhile. Sure, you'll have to dig it all out next year, but that will be with new faces and new issues. What's done is TRULY done. And the satisfaction of that closure is priceless.