Growing up, I aspired to be something that seemed to be on every elementary school kid's bucket list. We would try to compete with each other, telling all our friends that in the future we will become this or that and be famous or make a difference in the world. I remember proudly proclaiming that I would become an astronaut and find a planet that had life! Apparently, this is something I won't be pursuing. As graduation approaches, what I aspire to do is enter the field of education and teaching in a secondary school setting. However, being a teacher comes with many stressors that can harm the instructor on a physiological or psychological level. Whether an instructor teaches at the primary, secondary or university level, he or she will undoubtedly experience some type of stress in his or her teaching career. It may be due to a lack of respect inside and outside the classroom, excessive workload and poor time management, or a lack of available resources. In any case, the instructor could collapse into something called burnout. According to Mearns and Cain (2003), burnout is chronic stress resulting from working with other individuals and will have a bodily response of cynicism, emotional exhaustion, depression and so on. Burnout not only has a negative effect on the teacher themselves, but will also ultimately affect the students in the classroom, who may be particularly unaware of their teacher's situation. However, not everyone will get burnout while under a plethora of stress. There may be individuals, especially people with Type A behavior, who will thrive under stress and be unaffected by burnout. Nguyen, currently site director of an after sch...... middle of paper ......perfect the instructor himself, but especially those involved in the work environment. With a negative attitude among teachers, staff and the students themselves, there will be chaos practically everywhere in the school. Stress is something that an individual should not allow to consume his or her life. With many great coping mechanisms, an individual can alleviate the feeling of burnout before contracting any of the symptoms. References Mearns, J., & Cain, J. E. (2003). Relationships between teachers' professional stress, their burnout and their distress: Coping roles and negative mood regulation expectations. Anxiety, Stress and Coping, 16(1), 71.Qusar, N. (2011). A study on professional stress among school teachers. International Journal Of Education & Allied Sciences, 3(1), 31-36. Structure: Nguyen, A. (2014, March 26). Personal interview.