I had good years teaching and rotten years. Highs and lows. So please don't be putting yourself down. I have seen and been both sides of the good teacher/bad teacher equation. It's never as cut and dried as we or anyone else makes it out to be. I am very happy to be leaving the profession. It's time. I will welcome a job that involves no days that are 12-14 hours, no weekends, no 'extra-curricular' stuff. I will not miss the summer break because all it ever meant was a recoup time to rebuild the energy to do it all again for another year. The only thing I will miss is the students. But they will have other teachers and go on to have good lives, and after all is said and done, that's what we want for them.