Comparison and Contrast of Teachers and Coaches.
In the real world, people search for jobs that will give them personal satisfaction, along with a good paycheck. Unfortunately, we all are not lucky enough to get the jobs that we want, so we have to settle for what is available at the time. I mean, how many people really dream of working at McDonalds, or who really had aspirations of laboring at the local Shell station? This is not always the case, many people actually decide what they want to be, and then actually accomplish their career goals. Most people, when searching for a career, usually pick something that they would enjoy, rather than something that they hate to do, but pays well. .
There are all types of fulfilling jobs such as doctors, social workers, policeman, fireman, and teachers. Teachers are a very special group of people, how many people do you know that would take other people's kids, and watch them for eight hours a day, five days a week, and one hundred days a year. Another group of special people are coaches; these people basically work all year round to help the people that they are coaching reach their full potential. The purpose of this paper is to compare and contrast these two professions; in many ways they are similar, but can also be very different in other ways. .
The first profession is the job of being a teacher. Over the last fifteen years, the job of being a teacher has been looked on less and less. In the past, being a teacher was almost as well respected as being a doctor, now being a teacher is viewed in the same light as working at K-Mart. (Well maybe not that low.) How did this happen, going from a top profession, to a job that people take because they didn't achieve what they really wanted to do. The reason teaching has been such a bad reputation is because of the teachers. Many have indifferent views when it comes to teaching the students; I have had countless teachers that have given assignments without really explaining what the assignment was about.