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Anyone here do career change to a teacher?
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Posted 2 months ago Was wondering if anyone here had a career change to become a teacher? I have worked in finance for the last 10 years, but before that I taught sports to children at our local park district. I loved that job and I want to make a transition to be a teacher in Early education. Besides the salary change, what other challenges and tips can you give me? |
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| Posted 2 months ago For quite a few of us teaching is a career change. For myself, I was in environmental consulting for 18 years before becoming a teacher at the age of over 40. I found grad school easy and fun, I think because of my maturity. Having 4 children of my own, relating to children also came easy. What was difficult for me was the change in working environment: no breaks, constantly "on", the end product and the budget had no correlation to one another, isolation in the classroom, and a lack of professionalism by a surprising number of people. Children are the living messages we will send into a time we will not see. – John W. Whitehead |
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| Posted 2 months ago I began teaching when I was about 35 years old. But I'm not so sure it could be called a "career change" since before that, I didn't really have what most would call a "career." After gettitng out of the USMC in November of 1967 (i was almost 25 then), I more or less bummed around for about five years, doing all sorts of minimum wage jobs - salesman, ice house worker, private postal system delivery, department store cleaner, etc. - until, in 1972, it occurred to me that it might be a good idea to use the G.I. Bill and go back to college. Getting my MA took me from about 1973 to 1978, and that's when I started teaching. |
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| Posted 2 months ago I started working full-time when I was 17. Starting then, and more or less in order with some jobs running simultaneously, I was a political organizer, a radio producer, a newspaper reporter, a radio news director and talk-show host, a volunteer teacher at a school-based alternative high school, a bartender, a voice-over artist, a restaurtant manager, an advertising copywriter, a web site newsletter editor, an adjunct college professor and finally, starting at age 50, a full-time public school special education teacher. (I think writing this wore me out). "Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence." ~~ Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818) |
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| Posted 2 months ago I did retail for 15 plus years,I always wanted to be a teacher but I dropped out of school.Anyway to make a long story short I took a 2 year degree program in Early Childhood Education and here I am.Best choice I ever made,It is a rewarding career choice and my beneifits are decent. |
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| Posted about 1 month ago I thought about doing a career change from teaching. 2 years ago I enrolled in a certificate program and became a dental assistant. It was not what I wanted. Now I guess I am back to teaching, when I get a job.
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| Posted about 1 month ago No, I've worked with children since I was 16 years old. I was a teaching assistant in college. I've worked in summer camps , after school programs, and day care centers. My first year out of college I taught pre-school in The Bronx! Teaching is really all I know! :) Well, I'm a cool Mommy too! :) |
