I started teaching Biology and the work load is really piling up!  It’s like WOW – there is so much work!!  For biology I have to create all my resources from scratch – there are textbooks but they are class sets and pretty high level. I make student notes from these texts and it TAKES FOREVER! Part of my problem is that I am a perfectionist and I want them to look and sound great and the other part is that I am being evaluated and they need to be great.  So one of the things I have learned by taking on this next course is there is way more work than I thought there would be. Plus I have to mark and have fallen way behind.   I know that once you teach a course a few times (even once) you have those resources built but those first years are going to a grind!   I have hardly seen my son – I work all the time. It’s a lot of work.