Breakdown time for abandoned teachers

WE are all, I think it’s safe to say, in some form or another, going through our own kind of personal darkness during this bleak, hopeless, protracted period.

- FIONA PHILLIPS

I cannot imagine, though, waking up each and every day knowing that I am going to be walking through the doors of hell each time I turn up for the job I used to love.

Tragically, that kind of scenario is one that thousands of erstwhile professionals are now facing on a daily basis. Facing up to their work as a sense of duty, rather than for the sheer love of it.

The professions we’re hearing most about right now are medicine and its offshoots, and education.