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11 The following graph shows the findings on Hall and Langton’s study 2006 about the advantages of teaching. Figure 2.1 Advantages of Teaching Hall and Langton, 2006: 129 The graph above explains the data from Hall and Langton’ 2006 study about the advantages of teaching. There are three groups of respondents, they are general adult population which aged 26+ years old, youth aged 12-25 years old, and employers. General adult population which aged 26+ years old was signed with the PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 12 black colour in the graph, while the grey color was used to sign the youth aged 12- 25 years old, and the employers was signed with the white color in the graph. When respondents were specifically asked what they personally perceived to be the advantages of teaching, there were a wide variety of responses. Most respondents said that holiday was the one of the main advantages of teaching. Although it was mentioned as the one of the main advantages of teaching, the analysis shows that when specifically asked, people are generally divided about whether this is the case. The data suggests that long holidays are a factor used by those who are not attracted to teaching to explain why others would want to do a job which they believe is so unappealing Hall and Langton, 2006. The three following advantages are job satisfaction, teachpass on knowledge, and kids ’ growthsuccess. The percentage of each aspect was more than 15 and almost reaching 50. It shows that teaching influences someone’s job, knowledge, and family. The six following advantages of teaching are meeting range of peoplecultures, professionalpersonal development, salarypay, like working with children, hours of working, and job security. Different from the previous three, the percentage of these six advantages of teaching from each aspect was not reaching 20. Talking about working hours, contrary to what some may think, people completely rejected the idea that teachers work shorter hours than most other working people Hall and Langton, 2006. In contrast with ten advantages of teaching above, only few people mentioned that teaching has no advantages. 6 of general adult population which aged 26 years old stated that teaching has no advantages, while 4 of youth aged PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI