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Today - 23 February 2007 - is National Work Your Proper Hours Day in the UK, organized by the TUC. They’re urging everyone to take their proper lunch break and go home on time. The situation is especially acute for those who work in education as according to the Guardian we work on average 11 hours ‘unpaid overtime’ per week which would amount to over £10,000 per year in monetary terms. I chose the teaching profession for interest, not financial reward, but I have to say that my job does dominate my life somewhat… 
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I presume it also means arriving to work on time… which I failed to do this morning, having lain awake most of the night with the most appalling indigestion. On the other hand, I'm not a teacher, so perhaps it doesn't apply to me…
Yeah, I failed miserably too. In work by 7.45am, lunch punctuated with lesson evaluations, dealing with student questions and showing colleagues how to do things with their laptops, and then left c.4.30pm after being interviewed via Skype as part of Futurelab's Teachers as Innovators program…