Attractive Aspects of Teaching

• Satisfaction from helping others — Knowing that you are making a difference in the lives of other human beings is a very satisfying feeling.
  
  
• Scheduling fits well with child rearing — A teaching schedule is naturally the same as a student’s schedule. Therefore, your teaching schedule should mesh well with your own children’s schedule. This should provide you with maximum flexibility to participate in your children’s activities (summer and school holidays off, etc.).
  
  
• Passing on your own motivation to learn — Teachers are usually predisposed towards learning. Motivating students to learn and watching them grow as they do can be very enthralling. As you share your interest of current events and draw from your general knowledge (as it applies to the subject matter at hand), this should encourage students to explore their world (books, movies, television, the Internet) and increase their knowledge base.^vii
  
  
• Job security — In most states, full-time teachers achieve "tenure" after working for a specified time period. Tenure is a contractual obligation that translates to an almost ironclad guarantee that you will have a job year after year for the foreseeable future. Although you could still lose your job even after attaining tenure, it becomes much less likely.
  
  
• Collegiality — Constantly being exposed to other educators and exchanging ideas and information with peers is comforting to many educators. There tends to be less competitiveness in teaching than in other professions (such as the legal profession where you must attract and maintain a customer base). This promotes a freer exchange of ideas between colleagues than is often present in the business world.^viii