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Originally Posted by in_my_travels
Hello teachers!
I wanted to see what some former teachers are doing now, and current if you are considering a career change.
- What is your new career or what would you like to do?
- Are you happier now and why?
- Are you glad you made the decision to stop teaching?
- What made you decide to stop teaching?
- Do you sub? If so, how often?
I'm currently on a leave of absence for childcare and contemplating other careers. I have my ECE/ELEM license and can teach CTE (basically Home Ec) in MS and HS. I don't sub. I am considering doing childcare when we finally move.
I just wanted to see what my former teachers are doing now and how they feel about it.
Thank you! |
In addition to teaching, I've been a nonprofit youth program director who ran inner city tutoring and mentoring programs, I've been a print journalist, I've been a paralegal. I went back to teaching for a while, and then left to pursue a master's in counseling psych. I also traveled a bit with my spouse, who is military, and picked up a shorter term gig doing early childhood, which was new for me, but enjoyable.
My current goal is to work as a therapist with a special focus on the population I've always most enjoyed working with, in the classroom and elsewhere - adolescents with special needs and emotional and behavioral disturbance.
I'm happier out of the classroom because there was so much that had entered into the field of teaching that it was no longer primarily about educating, and I found that demoralizing and frustrating and thankless.
My decision was made when I got the opportunity to start a master's program.
I don't sub. I don't have any desire to sub. I'm very pleased with the route I'm going. The current state the educational system has made it into something of which I no longer feel satisfied being a part.
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