I am a maths teacher, I teach mostly 15 to 19-year-olds. We have just started a “practical life maths” class and it is so good! I am super lucky to work in an independent art's college where the staff are pretty much well paid and well respected. Teaching maths in an art's school is also interesting in its own right.
It is mostly about tax, self-employment, debt and all that, but it also gives me a real chance to get up on my soapbox and tell everyone about unions, UK workers rights (what's left of them) and the importance of worker solidarity.
The class are all really enthusiastic and mostly well behaved, but it snowed today and none of them were really paying that much attention. I kept trying to get their attention and when I eventually did I thought “ok, you see how hard it was for me to negotiate with you then?” and then went on a little oration of how solidarity and acting as a group is super important in the workplace and how they should use it for good.
Being a teacher is awesome, and I kind of get why a lot of governments and institutions under fund teaching… because if all teachers were financially able to tell their students the benefits of working class solidarity, then the system would be fucked in one generation!