Home | How It Works | Stats Login | Register         Case: Stating the Inevitable When I was interning, I ran across someone who had already graduated but was now applying for jobs. She went on an interview where the principal asked her, "Do teachers get burnt out?" I know that teaching can be stressful sometimes and burn out can happen and that you should be honest in interview. What is a good way to respond? Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!) This is a "trap question". Trap questions are used by interviewers to test the character of their potential employees. It's well known that teachers get burned out on the job. If you answer no, then the interviewer will take note that you're lying about certain parts of the job to look better in their eyes. However, you can turn this particular question around by adding onto it. If you say "Teachers definitely get burned out on the job, but...", you can remark how teaching has an "intrinsic reward" to it that keeps teachers going. That is to say, even if a teacher gets tired of working, they can keep going based on the fact that they signed up to teach children and give them a good education and future, and that thought (mixed with some rest and destressing) can reignite the flame in their hearts.