I quit teaching to look after my dying DM last year, having had quite a lot of absence before that when she got really ill. I have no regrets about that, but am now stuck in a low paid NHS role with no real prospects with a PT maternity contract alongside. The school I'm working in is lovely but they've just given the permanent post they as good as promised me to a NQT. I really struggled with the stress of behaviour management while my DM was ill so I don't want to go back to teaching in just any school - and anyway I'm on top whack pay and wouldn't be most schools' first choice.
I've been considering retraining as an allied health professional or even a nurse, but I have big reservations about taking on a massive debt to do something I can't be sure I'll enjoy and being broke for three years training to get there.
What I'm thinking now is that I'd like to get a decent business admin, HR or IT qualification under my belt so I have something specific to offer instead of waffling about tenuous transferable skills in job applications.
Any recommendations for well regarded courses that I can do via distance learning please? I did access to science and got a distinction so maybe I could build on that, but that was really with a view to retraining in healthcare.
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Dead end at 40. Ideas for good general training?
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JenniferYellowHat1980 · 29/03/2017 18:29
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