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There are some jobs in social services that you can do with a degree in education. However, I don't think that the job is any easier. I have a family member who was a caseworker for about 7 years with CPS. She said that the hours were terrible (lots of mandatory overtime) and the work was hard.
Perhaps you could find a job as a secretary or something. I don't really know.
A self-motivated person might look into becoming an independent education consultant, something I've considered myself. We know what the administrators want to hear, what they fall for every time, and how their petty prejudices are best pandered to.
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SO what other careers would be easier for a teacher to transition?
I don't know what will happen a few years from now in the system I'm in, but I've thought about what else I could do if teaching doesn't work out.
Interesting question. I noticed you are also from NJ and now I see why you are asking this. I love teaching but so much is required of us that I don't know how many of us will stay and for how long. I can't imagine what else I would do.
I love to teach, love to plan, love the children- why can't we just teach and teach what we know they'll need. It's very sad that teaching has come to this
Dentistry! Go into dentistry, it's a great profession, can't complain! I will always have a job, the recession doesn't affect me one bit.
That would not be an easy transition.
I can't think of anything where you would start with the same pay/benefits. I was thinking maybe realtor, but it would take a lot of time before you would be making much money and you would have to train for the license. I don't know what else the degree could be used for. Maybe working for a publishing company? That would be tough too because I would guess it would be in sales.
SO what other careers would be easier for a teacher to transition?
I don't know what will happen a few years from now in the system I'm in, but I've thought about what else I could do if teaching doesn't work out.
There's nothing easy about doing a career transition, but the closest thing that I could think of that could utilize your teaching credentials would be a facilitator.
The most important thing for you is to market your skill set and find what you'll like doing for the long-term. If you're a math teacher then maybe accounting might interest you, or maybe you're an english teacher and technical writing may be want you really want to do.
Write. School kids need an advocate - a voice in Washington. Kids have been terribly dumbed down in the last seventy years. It is time to reverse the course and teach basics for eight years. Knowing the capitol of Wisconsin serves little purpose in real life. All it does it prove a kid can memorize useless information. Understanding the hypotenuse does nothing to improve grammer, spelling or English usage.
I listened to an interview wtih Gore Vidal over the weekend on C-Soan's Book TV. One of the things he tried to convey is that American children know nothing about American history. He also said, "Every six year old I met said something smart to day. I never met a sixteen year old whot had anything intelligent to say. He aske, "What happened in those ten years?"
Just my two cents and a little "food for thought."
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