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I just want a 9-5 job with a decent salary

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Disabrie22 · 17/10/2021 12:02

My skills are all child and arts centred and I was a teacher now teaching assistant.
Does anyone have a job that pays a decent wage that they moved to from those skills?

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OompaLumpaLabrador · 17/10/2021 12:31

Advisory teaching? I know of Local Authorities who employ arts advisors to schools.

Specialist education service such as PRU? Or Virtual school?

Museum education service? Museums and other venues who do school visits will have an education officer. Mostly teachers.

LA roles in things like SEN admin often employ teachers. 9-5 and much better paid than a TA. If you can handle deadlines/ stress. I used to sometimes hotdesk next to the guy who coordinated the lollipop people. Always thought that sounded hover than his last job as a primary deputy head.

ftw163532 · 17/10/2021 12:33

Define decent salary please.

CelloYouveGotABass · 17/10/2021 13:17

A lot of civil service jobs don’t need specific skills, lots of them ask for generic, transferable skills. Most CS depts seem to offer flexible working too, which is better than 9-5

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Wallywobbles · 17/10/2021 13:19

How about instructional designer. Loads of online training as good as masters courses. Lots of it free.

Then you can freelance or work for a company. Almost no start up costs. Time consuming to do a portfolio but worth it.

Money is good.

Littleants · 17/10/2021 13:19

Depends on what you call a decent salary. According to many snobs on MN anything under £25k is unacceptable, despite lots of people being in that pay bracket.

Eggshausted · 17/10/2021 13:24

There was a thread on here yesterday with Mners saying they paid their cleaners £16 an hour. That’s over £30,000 a year…

ThesecondLEM · 17/10/2021 18:54

@Eggshausted there will be very few cleaners who will be able to actually work an 8 hour day so will need to take the dead hours out of that, the consumables and use of own equipment and public liability insurance out of that so its not so lucrative.

randomthings · 17/10/2021 18:57

Some office job in the education dept of your LA. Work for the schools inspection body in your UK country.

randomthings · 17/10/2021 18:59

Or you could try moving to a university lecturer position in Education. I know of a couple of teachers who did this, one teaching on a PGCE, another did something around children's rights.

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