Marcelo,

The job/profession, personal values, and the culture of the environment are important elements to consider.  One can love their job/profession, e.g., teaching and learning with students yet the school climate or other factors in the education system might be stressful, and in some cases, toxic. For educators, this can emerge as emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and lack of personal accomplishment- the three main factors in teacher burnout (Larrivee, 2012, p. 9).  Perhaps this is why there are teachers who enter their classroom, close the door, and find respite in that sacred space with their students - to breathe and to be.

For those who have grown weary of their profession, this signals an opportunity to take stock and possibly move on, gracefully.  It takes courage to realize what is and make the appropriate decision.  I'm thinking of the 50% of new teachers that leave the profession within 5 years. 

The optimal situation would be one in which teachers (and others) love their profession and have a healthy environmental climate, e.g. collaboration, cooperation, innovation, and a voice - a bottom-up approach. Larrivee speaks to choosing your environment well, i.e. the person-fit model.  Moreover, if the environment is no longer suitable, make a change to keep personal/professional passions alive. Changes can include position, scheduling, place, etc. However, it is important to know thyself, what the challenge/opportunity is, how to navigate the present, and why a change is under consideration. Critical friends can be very helpful in this process.

I love my profession and make changes as needed - after considerable reflection and assessment with CF.

Victoria

Larrivee, B., 2012.  Cultivating teacher renewal:  Guarding against stress and burnout. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Education.

Marcelo,

The job/profession, personal values, and the culture of the environment are important elements to consider.  One can love their job/profession, e.g., teaching and learning with students yet the school climate or other factors in the education system might be stressful, and in some cases, toxic. For educators, this can emerge as emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and lack of personal accomplishment- the three main factors in teacher burnout (Larrivee, 2012, p. 9).  Perhaps this is why there are teachers who enter their classroom, close the door, and find respite in that sacred space with their students - to breathe and to be.

For those who have grown weary of their profession, this signals an opportunity to take stock and possibly move on, gracefully.  It takes courage to realize what is and make the appropriate decision.  I'm thinking of the 50% of new teachers that leave the profession within 5 years. 

The optimal situation would be one in which teachers (and others) love their profession and have a healthy environmental climate, e.g. collaboration, cooperation, innovation, and a voice - a bottom-up approach. Larrivee speaks to choosing your environment well, i.e. the person-fit model.  Moreover, if the environment is no longer suitable, make a change to keep personal/professional passions alive. Changes can include position, scheduling, place, etc. However, it is important to know thyself, what the challenge/opportunity is, how to navigate the present, and why a change is under consideration. Critical friends can be very helpful in this process.

I love my profession and make changes as needed - after considerable reflection and assessment with CF.

Victoria

Larrivee, B., 2012.  Cultivating teacher renewal:  Guarding against stress and burnout. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Education.

Dear Dr Marcelo,

I'm happy with my job although my working environment is not so good. It would be better if scientific activities become more active and supportive.

Yes because I'm working on what I wanted and want to work on. The returns just follow proportionately to my happiness.

Dear Professor.

Definitely. As Confucius said ..... Choose a job you love, and you will never Have to work a day in your life.

Regards.

Yes, I am happy with my job i.e. Professor of Management. Because:

1. I joined this profession by choice

2. My University is "A-Grade" -- institution

3. Comfortable working environment

4. Teaching profession gives a sense of being ever young

5. Dealing with young, happy, and smiling students

6. Etc. ... !

I will definitely say NO ! 

Definitely, I am satisfied with my profession as a teacher. But I am worried very much about the growing interferences of  non-academic interests in academic fields.

Dear Marcelo,

I have read with pleasure all  the comments although they differs among them. I like teaching students as you and of course I think always about my children. Nguyen  raised the very important issue of  our working environment. If we feel that we can count on our colleagues (their support) we like our work.  Otherwise our attitude for them can be translated into students. Eddie’s comment also expresses our sense of this work – we teach because we want to do that or according Jaime we love our job. The very surprising answer was given by Dejenie. But I liked it because I feel that it was honest. I sometimes do not like my work when I have to work with people which envy your scientific success or high ratings given by students. The rest of participants in the discussion also said a lot of very important issues.

On the other hand I would like to return to the problem of teaching our children and ask you the following question? Let’s consider the following problem. Our children do not understand some lessons and require extra explanation. How do you think if our children in that situation prefer teaching by ourselves to  teaching by other people?

Teaching profession gives me a pleasure of continuous learning and interaction with smiling students, which is not possible in other jobs/professions.

“When work is a pleasure, life is a joy. When work is duty, life is slavery.” Maxim Gorky said.

Particularly, this is true for most teachers. We all know that a teacher’s salary isn’t great in China, but from the job we can acquire high satisfaction. We make ourselves useful and necessary in the field of education, even our whole society. 

That's just my two cents.

Regards

Happiness comes from job when we have a job satisfaction is an individual attitude of the mind .Mind has a process of will power ,zeal ,to be competition with present age to acquire knowledge required for the performance of job .Such performer  may not have any disatifaction for his job assignment & in such cases such performer will all the time remain happy in his job .

Hi Marcelo, I believe that happiness in the workplace truly comes when a person feels belonging and fulfillment in parallel. If you fulfilled your own individual targets, achieved individual performance, yet its not recognized by a line manager or wider audience or connection to a higher goal, sometimes that affect can damage or affect employees overall happiness and overall wellbeing. This I believe connects to Maslow Abrahams Hierarchy of Needs and when those five basic requirements are not met, then happiness cant be maximized.