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I'm finding a place to air my thoughts, just bear with me. I love teaching and I love children, but, the real struggle comes when I'm tasked to do things that are beyond my core duties. People keeps telling us that we should do our core duties, but yet, we're always dumped with additional projects and workload that is beyond our abilities. How to, when we've to run projects, run events, teach and mark. We're overworked, we're tired. I've been working till late, every single day. Not a day of rest. You'd think weekends are rest? No, after I meet my boyfriend, I come back to work. I had to cut my dates with my friends short because I had to work. My friends even commented, don't need to ask "me", she can't come one. Yet, we don't get appreciated. We just get dumped with more work. And when we don't get enough and proper rest time, we feel frustrated. Not helping that we've also our own classes. We don't only have one class, we have a few. I've five different classes. This is not counting CCAs. Sometimes, I wonder, who am I working so hard for? All these non-core are redundant and irrelevant. Because, I've no time to plan good lessons, no time to mark. Yet, we're always being shot down for not planning good lessons. I couldn't sleep well, I always wake up at 5am. The stress is really not helping, the whole situation is not helping. To people out there, if you have teacher-friends, please, just drop a text and check in on them. Teacher's mental health is suffering, we always have to put up a front for our colleagues, our students and our parents. Not all teachers have the luxury of sleeping a full 8 hours, not all teachers have time to spend on their own, not all teachers have a full 30-minute lunch break. We're glad we even have time for lunch, even if it is 20 minutes. You don't understand the works of a teacher, it is okay, we don't need your understanding, really. What we need, is that little bit of encouragement and not putting us down for the effort. For a 30-minute lesson, do you know how much planning goes into it? You don't, right.