Question: What are the Advantages and Disadvantages of Teaching?

Choosing a career is a tough decidion. Is teaching right for you? Consider the advantages and disadvantages of a teaching career.

Answer: Advantages:

Receive private scholarships and federal funding for teaching programs

Funding for teaching supplies

Health benefits

No teaching on the weekends, holidays, and the summer

Knowing that you're making a difference

Disadvantages: Teaching large classrooms

Low salary relative to the work

Small school budgets

Work, on average, 50 hours a week

What are the advantages or the disadvantages of being a lawyer?

Disadvantages:

long work weeks

not getting to see your family

having a secretary

high stress

many business trips

tedious tasks

law school can be expensive

Advantages

high salary

many business trips

most firms offer partnership

work with intelligent people