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....

[Zilla1]

As PP said, pro rata the FTE salaries in the Civil Service by your working pattern - would it be cGrade 7 if 2 1/2 days a week to get c£24k? DfE and ALBs have lots and lots of ex-teachers in policy teams.

Good luck.

[middleager]

I agree with the tutoring suggestion.

I have a specialism and work part time in a business role in education earning the salary you specify, over 26 hours, along with the holiday etc.
It can be very stressful and spill into evenings and weekends, but overall I am fortunate.

[HappyDooDaaa]

SBM?

[Strictlysilly]

Nursing offers flexibility

[AppleKatie]

You want a lovely London prep school.

You could earn that part time without the extra two days of stress on the other two days.

[zatarontoast]

As you are in London you have lots of options:

-tutoring with 20 years experience you could easily charge £35 per hour
-nannying for families who want a built in tutor
-academic writing/editing/proofreading
-consultancy work.

If you have any specialized areas of teaching such as dyslexia or SEBD I would arket yourself that way in order to charge more

[RB68]

you could look at teaching teachers - so training aimed at teachers - leadership or SEND etc. I know many HD and Heads eventually move into this sort of field. On line training and training in general are also areas this could work

[SaltedCaramelPopcorn]

I'm a legal secretary and on £24.5k for a 3 day week

[Hardbackwriter]

@Bearsbearsbears40

Some university professional services jobs are well paid, worth taking a look if you have one close to you. Is £24k before or after tax?

I would also recommend this - I work in university professional services and earn a bit less than this (well, I earn more but I work four days a week - FT salary would be £35k) but the same salary band at a London-weighted institution would be about what you're looking for. I moved into my job a year ago from lecturing, so I had more HE experience than you but less managerial experience, so I don't think it's unrealistic that you'd go in at a similar level. There are lots of ex-teachers knocking around where I work!

[Nannynanny999]

Would you consider nannying? I work 3 days a week (in London) and am on considerably more than £24k a year. Your teaching skills would be in demand.

[Buttercream22]

Have you looked at your councils/boroughs Education Advisory Service?
I'm an advisory teacher working in London. I specialise in SEND....but they often look for lots of different specialisms.

[Bells3032]

Civil service would be a good move. Ofsted pay very highly for people with teaching experience

[Redwinestillfine]

Civil service. Most departments offer flexible working. That salary is easily doable.

[OhDearWhyAmIFatterly]

Thank yoh all so much, I am feeling a wee bit more like there might be an achievable light at the end of this tunnel!
I have 2 large unis very close to me so I will have a look. When you say "professional services" what do you mean exactly?

[middleager]

I used to work with an ex teacher who went on to a professional services role in a uni as an outreach/education liaison officer.

He would go to careers events, into schools, encouraging widening participation. It was perfect with his background in teaching.

[ScrapThatThen]

Work for an online school or hospital education service?
I would be very cautious - you are at the peak stage that women ditch their careers (stressful career, young children, burnt out from the last x years of pregnancy and child raising, take home salary small compared to work stress due to being part time). But you have done the hardest part. In three to five years you could be taking home that whole time salary (and building a decent income for retirement). Or taking home half of it from a non professional job having had to start from scratch. I would seriously consider taking a side step rather than an out at this stage (I felt like you for years but stuck it out and now the kids will be off to uni in a couple of years, I finally caught up with dh for earnings and am building pension, have a professional identity and earn £40 k.

[TheHumanSatsuma]

@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!

The problem with this is that tutoring would be outside school hours, so if your children are in primary then that might not be what you want.

[Mochudubh]

Non-academic, Finance, HR, IT, Estates etc.

[tillyandmilly]

Wow - looking at jobs myself been made redundant - admin side - applied for one £10,000 for 22 hours a week but better than nothing! Would love to get £24,000 on a full-time salary but they don’t exist where I live!

[lalayada]

I make over £24,000 and work part time so it is possible. I'm an artist and my hours are largely part time except for occasional circumstances due to deadlines for a show etc. I suppose its not something everyone can do and takes years to build up to but it can be done.

[GeorginaTheGiant]

My relative left primary teaching after about ten years. They now earn more than they were, doing tutoring and other teaching related activities on a self employed basis such as forest school and marking for home Ed websites. Basically doing all the good bits of teaching without the pressure and school politics. Obviously risky to be self employed but it has worked fine for a few years now and surely the pandemic offers untold opportunities for line teaching and tutoring work.

[boboroll]

Personally I think you will struggle to find a job that has the hours (in school), pension, holidays & salary that matches teaching. I think anything similar will require experience.

[Mochudubh]

@Mochudubh

Non-academic, Finance, HR, IT, Estates etc.

In response to the question "What do you mean by Professional Services".

Basically the non-academic side that allows the HEI to function.

[Hardbackwriter]

I have 2 large unis very close to me so I will have a look. When you say "professional services" what do you mean exactly?

It means what people used to call 'university administration' or 'support staff' but don't any more because they're both seen as a bit dismissive of what the roles actually entail, especially at a more senior level. I work in the quality department, and a lot of my role is ensuring that what is done in the university complies to the requirements of external organisations, which is actually quite interesting and varied. The part of my university that is absolutely full of ex-teachers is what we call staff learning and development, which does a lot of the training but also works on initiatives and policies to try and improve teaching quality; I think they are literally all either ex-lecturers or ex-teachers.