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new here, need some advice
| Thu, 12-30-2004 - 10:46pm |
I have been down for about 4 months now, since I left a career I had been in for 13 years to try teaching. I thought I always wanted to be a teacher, but I ended up in a different field after college. A teaching opportunity came up so I took it and now I am regretting it. At first I thought I was just sad over leaving my old job, and that it would pass with time. I'm trying my best but I am not enjoying teaching. I'm having trouble sleeping. For a while I was feeling sick every morning and even lost some weight because I was so anxious that I could not eat. I went to the dr and he gave me some medication, but it makes me so tired during the day that I quit taking it. I've been on Christmas break and I've been a lot happier, but am getting down again because I know I have to return soon. My children go to this school and I know a lot of people in the community, and I would be ashamed of myself if I quit before the end of the year. I also have no other job lined up yet and we need 2 incomes. I don't know how I can make it thru to June, feeling the way I do about this job. I should be grateful I have a job, but I believe it is this job that is causing me to be depressed. Has anyone else ever been in this type of situation and how did they stick it out? I'm just wondering if it is worth it to go thru what I have been going thru for another 5 1/2 months. It does not seem like a long time but it seems like forever to me because I am miserable. How can I pull myself out of this and try to cope until June? Thanks for any advice

Hi and Welcome
I agree that sticking it out until June will make you feel better about yourself in the long run and the best I can offer is that its not as far away as you think.
*hugs