Hello!
Looking for some honest opinions and advice, I'm currently a stay at home mum, I have a 13 month old.
I have been considering doing a OU degree to better myself and get into a role which will give myself and my daughter a secure future and inspire her when she is older.
I've been going back and forth with my decision with what I want to study as taken on a degree and the student finance debt is incredibly scary to me!
The two careers I am interested in are counselling and primary school teaching.
I was swaying more towards teaching but after doing a lot of research I have been very put off by the difficulty teachers face with a healthy work/life balance. The threads and articles I've been reading are all a few years ago so curious whether teachers workloads have got a little easier or whether they are still having to work a min 60 hours a week!?
Any teachers willing share their typical working days and hours/ experience I would greatly appreciate to hear from you
Secondly I'm very interested in going down the counselling route, I find psychology very interesting and have done a lot of self taught work on on myself /how the human mind works/ breaking habits/ positive thinking and wellbeing, so feel that this could be a very rewarding career, I haven't done as much research on this as a career, I have read that it's a very long training process, so please again share your experience and thoughts on this.
Thank you so much for taking the time to read this and I greatly appreciate your help, advice and opinions.
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BGnz · 26/07/2019 08:23
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