Hello Teachers, If you are seeing this, I salute your resilient spirit in taking up this job.  I never envisaged becoming a teacher. In fact, there was a time my father woke me in the middle of the night to confirm how an accountant decided to teach in a primary school. I can't tell till this moment why I became a teacher. I decided not to test the waters anymore asking myself such question. I believed in the phrase that says "when the reason of a thing isn't known, abuse is inevitable". I guess the day I get to know, I may lose the flame that has been burning in and through me. Do I feel happy in this profession? YES. Has there been a time I was frustrated? ABSOLUTELY! I began my teaching career in 2007 as an assistant teacher in a preschool. Steadily progressed to become a classroom teacher, a senior teacher, deputy head teacher, and now I head a school as well as manage two other schools and consult for three. By the time I clocked 9 years in my teaching career, I ...