I wanted to get some advice from people who are currently in the teaching profession.
I'm really unhappy in my current work situation. I'm self employed and work doing accounts for my husbands business, and I hate it. I don't have any real qualifications, have just worked in call centres and admin jobs prior.
Growing up, I always wanted to be a teacher but chose to go travelling instead of to Uni. I'm at a point in my life now where I am considering going to Uni and getting a degree in Primary Education with QTS. I have got some experience of working with children (not in a school) and during my A levels I did a few placements in schools, but that was about 14 years ago.
The trouble is, I know quite a few people who work in schools (teachers, head teacher, TAs, HLTA) and all of them have told me not to do it. That it's not what it used to be, too much red tape, etc. It's not that I don't believe them, but they've all only ever worked in schools whereas I've worked in some really awful jobs so I wondered if that was distorting the perspective from both sides somewhat?
So I wanted to ask here, what you really think about teaching, is it a good time to study and become a teacher, or would you tell me to run a mile?
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namechanged4u · 12/06/2019 23:20
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