Other days, its filling in reports, or reading over a chapter I’ll be teaching, or one of the frequent circulars from the department. Teaching, for me, is a job that takes place in school and not one where it continues at home. But these are all gone now and teaching, like many professions, has become an increasingly lonely profession. The non-teacher asked us what the main part of our job during class time is, what are we actually doing. These are increasingly rare in teaching, as they are in many professions.

Source: The Irish Times January 13, 2026 06:20 UTC