Jobs after teaching- what have people done?

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I gave up teaching for a break, and I don’t want to go back now I’ve escaped. I’ve realised though my earning potential and job experience elsewhere is limited though.

I was a deputy headteacher for 6 years before I left. Has anyone forged a new career post teaching? What is it? I’m 37 so I feel like I have many working years left. I struggle to know where and how to restart, having been in teaching since university I have no real experience of job hunting. I got my first job from a student placement, and I’ve had one formal interview ever. I progressed internally then within a schools cluster so it was very informal.

Aside from retail through a-levels and university (Supermarket) I have no other experience (even that the job was simply offered as a new store was being built and I knew the manager through friends). It sounds silly to have done my job and have so little experience outside schools, it’s a little bubble and feels so different to starting elsewhere.

Any advice or experience anyone is happy to share. My references would be good, I was always outstanding/ meeting PM targets. I enjoy working with children. I just never ever want to teach again... but I’m starting to feel I’ll have to. I actively enjoy the working with people and children side of the job, but I’m quite open to trying things totally knew. My dream job is one that I leave on site and walk away from when I go home, otherwise I enjoy lots of things

Publishing, were you primary or secondary? Where are you based?

Childminder, love the children side of things just without all the hassle!

Oh OP I’m with you all the way. Similar job history and no desire to return. I’m scouting sites like didteach.com and TES but in the other workplaces section.
The issue I’ve found is that my wage will decrease significantly from what I was on. I’m not sure atm that I can afford to go back and pay for two kids in childcare. But maybe next year...

I’ve both secondary (maths, though I have a law degree... don’t ask) but mainly primary.

Earning amounts are a worry, though luckily I have less demands now.

I’m Essex, with quick easy London access. Quite happy to relocate...

I know little about publishing... but I’ll have a butchers 😊

I don’t think I’d want to childmind tbh, still ofsted and stupid observations/ lack of common sense employed in judgements. I’m really really done with that world. I was the acting head for the last ofsted and I think something snapped inside after it. Sitting at the table over data and squeaking the grade

I left 18 months ago.

I’m a wedding/events planner and make the same (was HoD in London) but had a few lucky breaks!

I had a plan though and got a couple of rental flats whilst I was teaching to boost my income.

Bought one every two years. I bought projects, renovated and then got the deposit for the next place by remortgaging. It takes determination but it was worth it!

I'm a careers adviser at a university, quite a lot of former teachers round here!

It's a growing sector as universities are under increasing pressure to give students more support with transitioning into work.
You need good listening and questioning skills, create and deliver presentations and workshops for students, all very transferable skills from teaching.

There's a bit of data crunching but not the soul draining Ofsted stuff.

I retrained as an Occupational Therapist. 3 years and another degree to qualify, but my teaching skills are an amazing asset to my current career. I qualified this year at 42.

Deputy designated safeguarding lead for a large organisation.

I left teaching and did...
call-centre work 18k
supply teaching 85-135 pounds a day
learning cover supervisor 18k term-time only
postal work 8 pounds/hour
nursery nurse 11 pounds/hour

As you can imagine, you are going from a salary to minimum wage/half salary as the pay-off for less stress.
Watching thread with interest x

Teacher to learning designer at a university. 44 days leave a year. Flexible hours and equivalent pay to what I was on as HoD, so not Assistant Head salary, but comfortable and no stress.

I do the education outreach for a big company. Many STEM-related businesses have similar roles. Also look at university / research organisations locally who do public engagement. It's all the best bits of teaching with none of the crap.

Reading with interest, I was an AHT for about 5 years, and earning a good salary. I've taken an extended break to spend time with my family (resigned), and I'm not going to go back. I loved the same things as you, and already have a tendency to look at it with rose-tinted specs, but I often remind myself of the sheer panic at Ofsted, the hours, the crazy control freaks I worked with. I'm also nearly 37, with two degrees, aside from my teaching qualification. I have no idea what I want to do when I decide to get back to work in a couple of years.

I'm a farmer so not very helpful, My pupils loved me but management not so much. What is your dream job?

Adviser for a government agency. Double my teaching salary but has taken a while to get here. I just quit teaching and went with the flow, and it all turned out fine in the end. There are ex-teachers everywhere - we easily outnumber serving teachers so it's not as though our skill set is unknown out there in the wider world.

I work for a big professional services firm and we have a big corporate learning and development team filled with former teachers

I went on to work in ad in for a charity. Crap pay but very a very sociable role with lots of presentation so I get a bit of the sort of thing I miss about teaching.

That was meant to say admin...

Civil service - have a look at Department for Education jobs on civilservicejobs.gov.uk - lots of ex-teachers work there. Flexible working, less stress

I worked as an Education Officer for a museum, not a term time-only post but great if you're interested in developing materials, history, local affairs etc. and definitely less cliquey and stressful.

I would check out the civil service, there's probably plenty of transferable skills.
www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cgi

X-posted!

Civil service. Brexit has created a ton of jobs. I'm a former teacher and there are 2 others in my team.

I work for SEN services at the LA and I love it! Same money as I was on as HOD and a LOT less stressful! Flexi time is a revelation!

I am an engineering physicist. I did something similar before I went into teaching, so I looked for related jobs to get out to. I was similar to an AST-type role, so I didn't want a big pay cut. I started on about the same money as I was on as a teacher, and it's only gone up! Been promoted twice in a short few years too.
Get on TES and have a look at the threads on their forum about this. You get loads of suggestions about publishing but I don't know any ex teacher who has managed to break into that beyond copywriting. It's quite hard!
I will caveat that I have a PhD in the subject area taught and it's related to what I do now, so it's helped a lot.