Pedro often says that, at the age of 27, he has already taught classes in almost the entire country. He did his internship in Braga, where he is from. He went down to Alentejo in the first year he taught, and the following year even further, to the Algarve. He then moved up to Barreiro and is, this year, placed at a school in Oeiras. It is a common path for many teachers at the beginning of their careers, especially those, like him, who work in Physical Education — one of the recruitment groups in which the most teachers graduate every year. And it forces them to walk with their house on their shoulders, to enter new schools, with new colleagues, to be far from their family and to face the almost impossible task of finding a house — well, a room — that doesn’t steal half their salary.
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