This Week’s Good Work Insight

Teaching gets a bad rap.

Low pay (often but not always true).

Lots of work (yes, but it is work, after all).

Drama (yes, too, but this is what happens when humans live in community).

But whether it is a first-job-out-of-college, a mid-career pivot, or a fourth-quarter turn, teaching helps the teacher grow while aiding parents to help form their children intellectually, morally, socially, and spiritually.

The benefits of being a teacher–especially in a school committed to truth, goodness, beauty, virtue, civic responsibility, the love of God and neighbor–are under appreciated:

Real responsibility with human beings–the most valuable thing in the universe, the riches of the universe.

The requirement to read. People aren’t happy unless they are learning and reading, and a teacher has to read.

Conversations about the most important things of life–in the classroom, at lunch, in the hallways.

Some leisure time during holidays and the breaks: Time to travel, time to go on pilgrimage, time to write, time to start a new business (read Patrick McGinnis’s The 10% Entrepreneur: How to Live Your Dream Without Quitting Your Day Job).

Learning how to lead and serve people of all ages.

An opportunity to pursue excellence in the arena.

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And if you are called to do something else in five years, then you have served well and have been steeled for the next challenge that His providence will provide for you.

Blessings on your work and leisure,

CEO & Founder

P.S. We recruit a lot of teachers, so if you ever are looking for good work, please reach out.

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