When it is time to switch jobs, how do you know?

Perhaps a bigger wall between work and home?

When they ask me to clean out my desk I figure the writing's on the wall

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What field are you in? Our jobs COULD always interfere, but it's a give and take

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Work with kids with Emotional Behavioral Disturbances in Public schools. But lately, I have found myself talking and worrying about stuff instead of being able to leave it once I get in driveway. Also it has caused stress as the little man is now year old and scares the fire out of me to know he will be going to school with kids like these.

I can say that when a bad job interferes with your personal life it either needs to be nipped in the bud or get out of there.

I had a job that just depressed me every day and I brought it home and became kinda a crappy husband and dad.

It took my wife leaving to wake me up out of a stupor. That's obviously a far end of the spectrum of what it can do, but I'm a big evangelizer of "life is too short to spend 8 of your waking hours doing something that doesn't energize you" Attitude.

That's a tough field to be in. That sort of work and special ed workers have a special place in my heart.

If you think it's time, it's probably time.

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Work with kids with Emotional Behavioral Disturbances in Public schools.

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The burnout rate for someone in your position is pretty high so don't take it personally if you feel like it's time to move onto something else. You don't want to be "that guy" who really loses his shite if he stays around too long in that kind of position.

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Also it has caused stress as the little man is now year old and scares the fire out of me to know he will be going to school with kids like these.

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FWIW, we've always went to school with kids like that. They just weren't officially labeled as such as they are now. There's always going to be bad people in this world. The best you can do is raise your kids right and try to give them the tools to recognize the difference between right and wrong. Scary, but that's just the truth of it.

I also work in a public school and see these kinds of kids. The best thing you can do to protect your own children is to teach them to fight. When he is two get a pair of boxing gloves for the two of you and make it fun. My son loves boxing dad and I feel he can now escape a situation without getting hurt.

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I also work in a public school and see these kinds of kids. The best thing you can do to protect your own children is to teach them to fight. When he is two get a pair of boxing gloves for the two of you and make it fun. My son loves boxing dad and I feel he can now escape a situation without getting hurt.

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I'm actually a firm supporter of this. I will always be grateful for being able to take MMA during 8th-12th grade. Not only for the ability to defend myself, but it was also a huge confidence booster. Knowing you know how to fight does wonders for self-esteem.

You have to keep a strong mind when that's who you deal with all day long, I've seen many Special Ed. teachers I work with take on the goofy traits of their kids because they couldn't keep the reality of normal behavior separate from what these kids exhibit to them all day long. Check out counseling, you still get to use the skills you have without being immersed in their crazy world every minute of the workday.