美国老师陷入职业倦怠，在TikTok上分享辞职经历
教师们已经疲惫不堪。全美教育协会最近的一项研究数据显示，90%的协会成员感到筋疲力尽。新冠疫情增加了教师的工作量，暴露出教育部门潜在的系统性问题，导致考虑离职的教师比例创下历史新高。
与很多年轻工作者一样，教师们也会在TikTok上流露倦怠情绪，表达对辞职的焦虑，分享寻找灵活工作、进入新行业的建议。
参选地方公职失败后，40岁的凯莉-珍妮·李决定2022年再也不教书了。
她说：“我已经无力支付所有账单了，太累了。当然，在疫情期间，所有事情都变得更难，你希望尽可能提供支持。但凡事都有个度，你得学会保护自己。”
李住在亚特兰大，是位单亲母亲。她说由于有了各种额外责任和开销，这份教师薪水已经入不敷出。她在TikTok上以@KJLinATL的名字公开表达了自己的倦怠。
艺术教师艾利森·斯普林格从疫情初期便开始远程工作，她很快意识到，自己并不喜欢远程教学，但喜欢在家工作带来的灵活性。
这位28岁的女士当时住在阿肯色。她说：“如果有一份工作不需要我时时刻刻投入，如果能有更多自由，生活会是什么样子呢？我尝到了一点甜头。”
2020年秋季重返学校后，由于公众对教育工作者在身心两方面的付出缺乏足够的认可，斯普林格愈发感到沮丧。
斯普林格经常浏览Instagram和TikTok的教师社群。看了其他辞职开始新事业的教师的视频，她意识到，这样的决定虽有点叫人望而生畏，但也并非不切实际。
辞职后，她也分享了自己离开教学岗位、开始以自由职业者身份从事社交媒体咨询工作的经历。自2021年11月开设@al.meets.social频道以来，她发布的与教师相关的可迁移技能视频播放量已超过50万次。
“我收到很多来自教师的留言，大体都是说‘我想离开这一行，我需要帮助’或者‘你能分享这些经验真是太好了，这让我相信我也能做到’。”
李还分享了自己决定辞职的心路历程，以期帮助他人减轻离开教职的羞愧感和不确定感。她说：“作为教师，你所受的训练要求你首先考虑其他人的感受，因此你会对辞职感到内疚。你或许觉得只有自己放弃了，其他人都对你的做法不满，而且你习惯的生活将一去不返。”
李和斯普林格不仅利用平台破除辞职的污名，还为其他教师提供职业建议。李辞职后在一家电子商务公司担任业务顾问和项目经理。她的姐姐有人力资源从业背景，于是姐妹俩合作，为需要重新组织简历、突出可迁移技能的教师提供建议。斯普林格提到，在TikTok上可以找到关于教师改行的各种建议和职业规划。
“我希望关注这一小众话题的人们能够看到，离开教职后有很多出路，可以做技术工作或进入公司，可以从事在线教育、社交媒体管理，可以创业、做自由职业者或虚拟助理。我们未必非得互相竞争。我们之中有些人会开设相关课程，有些只是分享各自的故事，但我们可以合作，努力推动这项工作，让更多教师看到希望。”
疫情期间，教师责任增加，薪酬却未涨，引发了李和斯普林格等一批教育工作者的不满，开始优先关注自身的需求和目标。
这两名女性均在新工作中获得了更大的灵活性、更好的薪酬，找到了工作与生活的平衡。李说，她现在的薪水比当教师时提高了60%。
“我们很多人过于习惯将他人放在首位。我已经40岁了，我当然愿意在工作上花时间，但至少要把自己放在第二位。”
然而，尽管有更多的教师在TikTok上彼此交流、提供职业建议，导致教师倦怠的根本问题却仍未解决。李希望，教育工作者的大规模辞职可以引发更深层次的教育改革。
“有一种可能性，大量教师辞职会迫使整个教育部门开始真正反思，问题出在哪儿，该如何保障教师的权益。辞职，在现在看来可能是一种自私行为，但我真心希望，一批人的集体离开可以唤起人们的关注，补上疫情期间缺失的一环。”（财富中文网）
译者：胡萌琦
教师们已经疲惫不堪。全美教育协会最近的一项研究数据显示，90%的协会成员感到筋疲力尽。新冠疫情增加了教师的工作量，暴露出教育部门潜在的系统性问题，导致考虑离职的教师比例创下历史新高。
与很多年轻工作者一样，教师们也会在TikTok上流露倦怠情绪，表达对辞职的焦虑，分享寻找灵活工作、进入新行业的建议。
参选地方公职失败后，40岁的凯莉-珍妮·李决定2022年再也不教书了。
她说：“我已经无力支付所有账单了，太累了。当然，在疫情期间，所有事情都变得更难，你希望尽可能提供支持。但凡事都有个度，你得学会保护自己。”
李住在亚特兰大，是位单亲母亲。她说由于有了各种额外责任和开销，这份教师薪水已经入不敷出。她在TikTok上以@KJLinATL的名字公开表达了自己的倦怠。
艺术教师艾利森·斯普林格从疫情初期便开始远程工作，她很快意识到，自己并不喜欢远程教学，但喜欢在家工作带来的灵活性。
这位28岁的女士当时住在阿肯色。她说：“如果有一份工作不需要我时时刻刻投入，如果能有更多自由，生活会是什么样子呢？我尝到了一点甜头。”
2020年秋季重返学校后，由于公众对教育工作者在身心两方面的付出缺乏足够的认可，斯普林格愈发感到沮丧。
斯普林格经常浏览Instagram和TikTok的教师社群。看了其他辞职开始新事业的教师的视频，她意识到，这样的决定虽有点叫人望而生畏，但也并非不切实际。
辞职后，她也分享了自己离开教学岗位、开始以自由职业者身份从事社交媒体咨询工作的经历。自2021年11月开设@al.meets.social频道以来，她发布的与教师相关的可迁移技能视频播放量已超过50万次。
“我收到很多来自教师的留言，大体都是说‘我想离开这一行，我需要帮助’或者‘你能分享这些经验真是太好了，这让我相信我也能做到’。”
李还分享了自己决定辞职的心路历程，以期帮助他人减轻离开教职的羞愧感和不确定感。她说：“作为教师，你所受的训练要求你首先考虑其他人的感受，因此你会对辞职感到内疚。你或许觉得只有自己放弃了，其他人都对你的做法不满，而且你习惯的生活将一去不返。”
李和斯普林格不仅利用平台破除辞职的污名，还为其他教师提供职业建议。李辞职后在一家电子商务公司担任业务顾问和项目经理。她的姐姐有人力资源从业背景，于是姐妹俩合作，为需要重新组织简历、突出可迁移技能的教师提供建议。斯普林格提到，在TikTok上可以找到关于教师改行的各种建议和职业规划。
“我希望关注这一小众话题的人们能够看到，离开教职后有很多出路，可以做技术工作或进入公司，可以从事在线教育、社交媒体管理，可以创业、做自由职业者或虚拟助理。我们未必非得互相竞争。我们之中有些人会开设相关课程，有些只是分享各自的故事，但我们可以合作，努力推动这项工作，让更多教师看到希望。”
疫情期间，教师责任增加，薪酬却未涨，引发了李和斯普林格等一批教育工作者的不满，开始优先关注自身的需求和目标。
这两名女性均在新工作中获得了更大的灵活性、更好的薪酬，找到了工作与生活的平衡。李说，她现在的薪水比当教师时提高了60%。
“我们很多人过于习惯将他人放在首位。我已经40岁了，我当然愿意在工作上花时间，但至少要把自己放在第二位。”
然而，尽管有更多的教师在TikTok上彼此交流、提供职业建议，导致教师倦怠的根本问题却仍未解决。李希望，教育工作者的大规模辞职可以引发更深层次的教育改革。
“有一种可能性，大量教师辞职会迫使整个教育部门开始真正反思，问题出在哪儿，该如何保障教师的权益。辞职，在现在看来可能是一种自私行为，但我真心希望，一批人的集体离开可以唤起人们的关注，补上疫情期间缺失的一环。”（财富中文网）
译者：胡萌琦
Teachers are exhausted. According to a recent study by the National Education Association, 90% of members report feeling burnt out as a serious problem. The COVID-19 pandemic increased workloads and exposed underlying systemic issues in the educational sector, leading teachers to consider leaving their profession at record rates.
And like many young workers, teachers are turning to TikTok to express their feelings of burnout and anxiety around quitting and share advice on finding more flexible work and how to break into a new industry.
After losing a campaign for local office, Kelly-Jeanne Lee, 40, decided that 2021 would be her last year teaching.
"It had gotten to a point where I wasn't paying all my bills. I was just tired,” says Lee. “With the pandemic, of course, everything is extra challenging, and you want to be as supportive as possible. But there's a point at which you need to choose self-preservation.”
Lee, who lives in Atlanta, is also a single mom, and with all those added responsibilities and expenses, she says her teacher salary was no longer cutting it. She turned to TikTok to post candidly about her burnout under the handle @KJLinATL.
When art teacher Allison Springer started working remotely during the beginning of the pandemic, she quickly realized she didn’t love remote teaching but enjoyed the flexibility that working from home afforded.
“I got a glimpse of what my life could be like if I had a little bit more freedom and if I had a job that didn't require so much of me all the time," says the 28-year-old, who was living in Arkansas at the time.
When Springer returned to school in the fall of 2020, she was further demoralized by the lack of public recognition for the physical and mental sacrifices educators were making for their jobs.
Springer was well-acquainted with teacher communities on Instagram and TikTok, and watching videos from other teachers who resigned and started new careers made her realize that quitting was possible, even if she admits making the decision was terrifying.
In turn, she shared her own experience of how she left teaching and started her career as a freelance social media consultant Her video on transferable skills relevant to teachers has garnered more than half-a-million views since she posted to her channel @al.meets.social in November 2021.
“I get a lot of messages from teachers that are basically just like, ‘I want out, I need help.’ Or ‘I'm so glad that you're talking about this experience because it makes me believe that it's possible for me.’”
Lee also shared her experience deciding to quit in an effort to take away some of shame and uncertainty associated with quitting teaching, “As a teacher, you're trained to put everybody else before you, and so you feel guilty about the [quitting] process,” Lee says. “You feel like you're the only one doing it, and everyone’s going to be mad at you, and this life you’re used to is going to go away.”
Both Lee and Springer used their platforms not just to break the stigma around quitting but also to provide career advice to other teachers. Lee has since found a job working as a business consultant and project manager at an e-commerce company. Her sister has a background in recruiting, and Lee works with her to offer advice to teachers looking to reorganize their resumes and emphasizing their transferable skills. Springer speaks to the wide range of advice and career trajectories to be found on former teacher TikTok.
"I hope that people that are tuning into this little niche are seeing that there are a lot of different ways to move out of teaching, whether it's tech or corporate, online teaching, or social media management, or entrepreneurship, or freelance or virtual assisting. And we don't have to be in competition with each other. Some of us have courses, some of us are just sharing our stories, but we can really collaborate and try to further this mission of allowing teachers to believe it's possible."
As teachers' responsibilities increased during the pandemic and compensation remains the same, educators like Lee and Springer are pushing back and prioritizing their needs and goals.
In their new jobs, both women have found more work-life balance, more flexibility, and better pay. Lee says she's making 60% more than she did on her teacher salary.
“So many of us are just so ingrained to put others first. I just turned 40, and I'm ready to spend some time but putting myself at least second," says Lee.
While teachers are increasingly finding community and career advice from each other on TikTok, the issues that are leading to teacher burnout remain largely unaddressed. Lee hopes that the mass resignation of educators might lead to larger education reform.
“There might be a way in which a lot of people quitting will force education as a whole to really rethink what it is and what it's doing to make sure that teachers are taken care of. And so it may seem like a selfish act right now to quit. But I hold out hope that a bunch of people leaving en masse will be the wake up call that COVID wasn't."
