Career change

Golden_Glow90

I'm a teacher and seriously considering leaving the profession after many years.  Any other teachers leave the profession?  What did you do instead?  How did you manage with the drop in earnings (I'm on the upper pay scale and can't see I'd earn this amount for many years by changing career).  Any stories would be great as my work as wells the stress of thinking about a career change is taking a toll on my mental health at the moment as I have no idea where to start.

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I had an interviewer one time, telling me how they had gone from Teacher to Operations Manager in an online/e-commerce company, I was being shown round the building as it were and asked how long in the industry in making general chat.

The only thing I would say is be careful if thinking about industries that look like they crying out with vacancies galore - healthcare stands out for me - after a lot of press about Care Assistants being in demand, I nearly landed a job in this change of career (Dad was trying to talk me out of it, saying do you want that in your 40's) it was lucky, and whether my employment past played a factor or just about everyone else is thinking 'career change', I'll never be sure, because the care assistant job ended up as being only available 'on bank.'  I could not afford to be in that situation, a job with no real guarantee, apart from the opportunity to see if I was suited to the work if called. (It's kind of given me some prospective and remembrance why a career change into another side of care nearly 10 years ago just didn't work out)

Maybe do a careers assessment. 
https://nationalcareers.service.gov.uk/skills-assessment

Marcon

Golden_Glow90 said:

I'm a teacher and seriously considering leaving the profession after many years.  Any other teachers leave the profession?  What did you do instead?  How did you manage with the drop in earnings (I'm on the upper pay scale and can't see I'd earn this amount for many years by changing career).  Any stories would be great as my work as wells the stress of thinking about a career change is taking a toll on my mental health at the moment as I have no idea where to start.

If you still fundamentally enjoy your job, is there any way you could do something to reduce the stress/non-teaching activities which are possibly one cause of your current unhappiness? If you'd face a big drop in salary if you changed career (never mind the impact on your pension, which would be huge), could you go part time? Or work in a different/smaller school, possibly outside the state sector if that's where you are at present?

TELLIT01

If the reason you are considering leaving is all the ancilliary, non-teaching 'stuff' have you looked at the possibility of private tutoring?

With a complete change of lifestyle/role it would, as you have suggested, be very difficult to find anything with similar pay.  Maybe that could provide a middle road.