Since I've moved to the UK, I've been hearing same old thoughts "You're good at maths!" "You can teach A-level!" (I don't even mention I tutor university students, too.) "You have a maths degree!" And after that "You should teach maths! We need maths teachers here!"
Of course, you do. Everyone needs us. But why am I rather a maths tutor and not a maths teacher?

I obtained my maths degree in a study programme focused on teaching. Even though I studied at the faculty of science (and get my biology degree too), I had some psychology-didactics-nonsense courses as a part of my study programme. Not saying it was entirely pointless, but I learnt more how to teach while actually teaching/tutoring my students rather than learning all the theoretical stuff in my teaching-related courses.

While working in a school, regardless it's SEN school, I see even better the difference between a tutor (independent individual who meets you, the student, in personally tailored sessions) and a teacher (the individual in a school who does an enormous amount of paperwork while not teaching during some school hours and even after school hours - what a horror!).
For me, as a tutor, the student is still a person, who I become to know very well and understand his needs, and can provide the best services for him and teach him the most of what is he capable of (in terms of maths). While talking about teachers, not mentioning they have large groups of students at one time, so cannot really focus on individual's needs, students must necessarily become also a statistics (and that, of course, applies to every teacher, not only maths teachers who can/should be able to deal easily with all those statistics which need to be done). Because there's a lot of numbers and data to be gathered and put into nice tables and being given to some school office people who can claim more money when having better results. Sounds harsh, but put in non-fancy words that's how school (must) work. Because running a school is also a business.

I am not saying your teachers don't care about you. And I am not saying tutoring is not a business. I am just pointing at the difference and reasons why I rather tutor students privately or why I could lead a group of students (of a similar range of abilities to secure the best understanding for everyone in the group) instead of becoming a maths teacher in a school.

This is just a very brief overview and doesn't cover at all every aspect of being a maths tutor versus a maths teacher. And we need both anyway. I've just chosen my path and I'm happy with it.
Even private tutoring has its disadvantages, but I still cherish it more than becoming a maths teacher and teaching maths full-time in a school. It may change later, I'm not saying it cannot, but being a full-time maths tutor is what I always loved to do and what I want to do for good more couple of years (together with my other maths related businesses, but that's a different story...)

So, at the end, try to appreciate your teachers, they do an awful lot of work on top of giving you rashes when they want to get answers from you about Pythagoras theorem and histograms and indefinite integrals... and all the crazy maths stuff you don't really get and then you come to me as a maths tutor, because I have more time to explain it in a way which will suit you the most and then maybe you can stop hating maths at the end. Because it's not so bad... But I tried to explain this in my previous article, so I'll keep this agenda of mine for myself today =)