Part time job £24,000, does it exist???

[OhDearWhyAmIFatterly]

I want to change career
I am so demotivated its unreal.
Been a teacher, now SLT for nearly 20 years. I just don't want to do it any more.
I still want to be part time so I can do a couple of days pick up/drop off.
DH doesn't think jobs exist outside of teaching where I could match my current salary. I know I am well paid but I have been doing it for nearly 20 years and experience should count right?
So fed up....

[Love51]

I was going to say civil service HEO as well. 4 days a week would put you on 24k even without London weighting. There is a lot of back office type work which means that flexi time is the usual way if working. It is quite competitive because the working conditions are so good!

[Iggypoppie]

Some sort of academic research post or social work or administration at universities would be an option.

[HotSince63]

DH doesn't think jobs exist outside of teaching where I could match my current salary

Your DH would be quite surprised. My SIL is a beauty therapist working part time from home and making up to £60 an hour.

[Pythonesque]

If I were you I'd look into private tutoring at least in the short term. The best options would depend on your level and subject, and available time. If you can work Saturdays you could develop this initially without it interfering with after school times.

If primary I suspect 11+ tutoring is where it's at, unless you're interested and able to do remedial for kids with dyslexia or dyscalculia etc. For a good income you need to accept that you will be catering to families with resources; but if you can get established then you will be able to offer reduced rates to at least some (my mother did remedial teaching for years and was very aware that had she lived in a different part of the city she was in, and been willing to turn down those who couldn't afford her, she would have been able to charge more than double easily).

Other options that might get you flexible daytime work would include supporting adult education, and A level tutoring if you have suitable subject areas.

Online tutoring that might include overseas students - hence different working hours available - has been around for a while and obviously is now more an option than ever before.

At a rough calculation, if you can get £40 / hour, then you can get your £24k on 20 hours a week for 30 weeks, or 15 hours a week for 40 weeks. However, there are probably options to do more intensive work, with a higher hourly rate for small group teaching, in holiday periods, if you can make the timing work for you and your family.

If teaching itself, rather than school teaching itself, is the problem then you may need to retrain - but I would encourage you to look at tutoring options to give yourself some breathing space in which to do that retraining.

Good luck finding the right way forward for you!

[WillSantaBeComingToTown]

@GreyishDays

What about training teachers?

That is a very badly paid job compared to her current role - mostly hourly rates and overall FTE around £30K

[Florencemattell]

I’m a nanny and earn more than that. Most nannies do 11 or 12 hour days. So 3 days would pay you back this.
Gross £11 to £18 per hour depending on area . Eg London higher rate.
An ex teacher would easily get a nanny job.

[Mumofcats5]

I was going to suggest civil service and DfE too. Most of civil service are now working from home . Added to that the DfE are always looking to learn from teachers....

[CottonSock]

Supply teaching so less prep?

[WillSantaBeComingToTown]

@ballsdeep

What about starting a consultancy? Loads of teachers have finished and started their own and are now on mega bucks. Some Charing £500 a day.

Not at the moment

With CV19 you can't visit schools and visits generate work. No Ofsted inspections- they generate work. No face to face CPD, no performance data, LAs offering VR to their very experienced advisers and consultants.

Most I know (and I know a lot) are trying to get jobs back in schools or MATs.

Unless you want to be Assistant Director for SEND and Education in an LA -lots of those posts.

[housemdwaswrong]

I retrained in proofreading and editing while still teaching. I'm only just starting off though so can't say how successful it is. I'll come back and update after Christmas, currently sat compiling a list of publishers to contact.

I'm going to try and hit the theses market for students whose first language is not English, alongside those publishers of academic content, as well as exam papers etc.

I'll let you know how it goes!

[Excited101]

Easy! Nannying!

[emsyj37]

If you wanted term time working it is available in the civil service, but depends on your role and obviously impacts your pay. I would still earn more than you if I went down to 3 days a week term time only but I have a technical job that took 4 years to train for. There are policy jobs and other roles that you may well have good transferable skills for - have a look at the Civil Service Jobs website for ideas.

[Hoppinggreen]

My part time (25 hours) pays more than that.
I do have some specific skills/experience though

[movingonup20]

I earned £1200 a month 15 hours a week admin but you would need to get accounts packages trained for this sort of role if you don't already, admin without accounts pays far less

[FurrySlipperBoots]

Tutoring/part time governess? Plenty of those roles in London!

[ToelessPobble]

The suggestion of social work made me laugh. There is about as much additional work as there is in teaching but without as much leave (yes I know teachers work some of the holidays) and it is equally high stress, particularly as you need to cut your teeth in a front line role first. It was usually to work until around 7pm each night and, if court reports or panel reports due, much later than that and weekends.

[mindutopia]

There are certainly plenty of jobs that make that part-time, but I guess it depends on if you have the skills? I am a lecturer (obviously that's sort of like a teacher, but requires a lot more specialist skills and education, not something you can just jump into). My salary would probably be around that if I worked 3 days a week.

Could you be self-employed? Dh is self-employed (in a trade) and though he works full time, he would easily make that in part-time work if he wanted to only work pt.

Tutoring could be an option? Running a home schooling collective? I know lots of people who pay a teacher to support home schooling and have a friend who runs sort of a home schooling group that is 10-3 twice a week and I think she charges 30 quid a day per child, so not masses of money, but if you had 4-5 children per day, that would be a nice little income. I know there is also some money in tutoring foreign students through the application process to UK and US universities. I had a friend who used to do it and she would have video calls with students to talk about preparing their applications, writing personal statements, how to prepare in the years leading up to applying so they had evidence of all the right activities and exams to get into the top unis, etc.

[dottiedodah]

What about Tutoring/ Supply Teaching? This may be what you need .Many DC are looking for help passing exams ,and with Covid could still be taught online. Supply in demand right now too ,I would think! Otherwise as above PP said ,maybe being a Lecturer at a 6th form College ,or a nearby Uni? If you have a degree plus several years Teaching experience ,I would not hesitate to apply for several different jobs and see what comes back .CS / BT/for example .Good Luck!

[blurisiris]

I do 2 days per week ( 2 x12.5 hour shift( 1600-1800 per month depending on weekend work. Healthcare related nursing .

[JudgeRindersMinder]

Yes they do, I have one, but the reason it’s so well paid is because it involves shift and weekend working

[BungleandGeorge]

@Pythonesque

If I were you I'd look into private tutoring at least in the short term. The best options would depend on your level and subject, and available time. If you can work Saturdays you could develop this initially without it interfering with after school times.

If primary I suspect 11+ tutoring is where it's at, unless you're interested and able to do remedial for kids with dyslexia or dyscalculia etc. For a good income you need to accept that you will be catering to families with resources; but if you can get established then you will be able to offer reduced rates to at least some (my mother did remedial teaching for years and was very aware that had she lived in a different part of the city she was in, and been willing to turn down those who couldn't afford her, she would have been able to charge more than double easily).

Other options that might get you flexible daytime work would include supporting adult education, and A level tutoring if you have suitable subject areas.

Online tutoring that might include overseas students - hence different working hours available - has been around for a while and obviously is now more an option than ever before.

At a rough calculation, if you can get £40 / hour, then you can get your £24k on 20 hours a week for 30 weeks, or 15 hours a week for 40 weeks. However, there are probably options to do more intensive work, with a higher hourly rate for small group teaching, in holiday periods, if you can make the timing work for you and your family.

If teaching itself, rather than school teaching itself, is the problem then you may need to retrain - but I would encourage you to look at tutoring options to give yourself some breathing space in which to do that retraining.

Good luck finding the right way forward for you!

Tutoring seems to cost around £40 per hour for the teaching component but I think probably at least 30 mins time on top for admin/ prep plus advertising, website maintenance, Sen teachers have additional qualifications and CPD. I’d personally be looking to engage someone also working in schools so would be up to date with the curriculum, or at least evidence of CPD. I think it’s possibly a good option but not quite as lucrative as it first seems!

[brogueish]

EdTech? Teacher training? I saw a role the other day working as a curriculum advisor for an academy trust.

I'm in a similar situation - in HE professional services! - and looking for a new direction. It's tough isn't it.

[PlugUgly1980]

Middle to lower senior management in Financial Services industry would pay £24k for 0.5 FTE - Operations Manager, Marketing, Project Management, etc if you can draw on your transferable skills.

[Apandemicyousay]

What about working for an exam board? Must be tons of different types of jobs there, and really suited to ex-teachers I’d imagine

[Elcantador]

I am a nanny and the last time i was in a part time job, working 3 days a week, i was earning £22k a year.
You have a degree and teaching experience so i think it would be very easy for you to find a well paying nanny role in London.
Or even a governess one, that pays very well too but less likely to be part time.