Just remember that life goes far beyond this board. If this board was a totally accurate representation of the lives of all English teachers, one would probably consider life to not really be worth living. Sometimes I envy those guys that do just decide to get drunk all the time and not treat the whole English teaching thing seriously, they're the ones not wasting time banging their head against a brick wall still hoping that they can be allowed to do some real teaching.

As I've just mentioned in another post, English teaching f**ks you up in the head in some form or another. Whilst our rants do offer a kind of therapeutical effect, ultimately the best thing to do is to keep moving forward. We've all done a lot on this board in the past to warn others about the pitfalls so that they will not encounter them in the future; but there's still a need for us all to be a little more selfish and do what we feel is right for ourselves going forward.