Table 2.

Demotivating factors, subthemes and illustrative quotes

Themes	Subthemes	Illustrative Quotes
Non-economic disadvantages (85%): Refers to the aspects that imply direct or indirect professional loses, but do not provide direct economic lose	Time restraints	"I believe that time is something that must be considered, since being a teacher requires a lot of time and if you want to work outside of teaching, it is difficult to manage time."
	Bureaucracy	“The administrative steps that hinder the teaching processes”
	Lack of appreciation/interest from students	“The attitude of the students and the disinterest in reading […] and they don't make the attempt to read a book. They are arrogant and very disrespectful to the teachers.”
	Difficulties in labor market	“Difficulty finding a good position” “I wouldn’t know where to start looking”
	Incompatible lifestyle	“…the balancing of classes with the medical agenda”
Economic disadvantages (39.7%): Refers to the consideration of economic disincentives		"Besides, the pay is usually not much." "Underpaid salary." "… very bad financial compensation."
Cost–benefit (11.7%): Refers that the weight that economic incentives represent is not worth it against other things		"The financial remuneration is usually not very good and many hours are required"
Disadvantages related to teaching (7.3%): Refers to detrimental characteristics that are proper and only related to teaching	Learning/adapting to teaching methods	"the educational model at the university"
	Generational gap	“The challenges of the new generations”
	Content dependent	“The type of subject that I would have to teach”
Self-centered demotivation (4.4%): Refers to the acknowledgement of the persons’ own attributes, aspirations, competence and interests that are not developed nor fulfilled through the teaching role	Doubts of having the ability	"I think I'm not good at explaining and I feel embarrassed when speaking in public"
	Personal beliefs	“University policies contrary to my beliefs”
	Stress trigger	"… it's only going to bring me stress"