New career for teacher? Real experience please

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Interested in hearing what people who taught for years found to do as a new career.

Particularly interested in ideas that used your teaching skills and didn't mean a drop in pay / pension.

The current SEND officer was apparently a SENCo for 17 years previously, she won't last long, seems terribly naive. The one before her was a teacher too, she lasted six months. It seems to be a popular option here to go into Local Government good salary,term time working,enhanced pension etc however it's brutal and the role they are sold is nothing like the reality.

@hiredandsqueak yes I want to jump into a govt role but the send case officers do seem brutal.

Yes mainly on site as it is a face to face service. Appointment wise its a mix of 10, 20, 30 and 50 minutes appointments depending on the purpose so i will see between 15 and 22 people a day usually. There are also specialisms amongst coaches eg health, over 50s, under 25s etc. hope this helps.

@FakeHoisinDuck It is brutal, son and daughter worked in Local Government (different areas) and SEND dept could never recruit internally because everyone knew how bad it was. Our LA are awful anyway but parents are getting more and more knowledgeable,happier to go to SENDIST (knowing win rate in our LA is more than 99%) and there are plenty of parent support boards and groups passing on information and experience. We have an Ofsted inspection imminent,more than 400 formal complaints against SEND dept in last ten months who have paid out more than £100k in recompense and LGO rulings and LA will be bankrupt before the end of the year.You would have to be crazy or desparate to go there probably the reason staff turnover is ridiculous.

Ours was judged failing. And it really is. I see it from the other side (parent of a kid with additional needs) and so often think I agve the right skill set....but everything you say is what's put me off in the past!!!

im on the thread about higher earners whobhave little work. If only there was a way to bridge between the 2 - all my post teaching muses seem out of the frying panninto the fire. (Someone mentioned social work- id easily get onto the course but again seems a recipe for burn out at a stage i want a bit more life balance!)

@FakeHoisinDuck son initially worked for shared services,so school support, recruitment, advertising, dbs etc.Then moved to HR as they funded university placement, then moved to SAP (payroll) Once he had stayed long enough to not have to refund LA cost of university placements x2 he moved to independent sector. He then recruited the rest of his dept. at LA. It's looking likely that when LA are forced to put their service out to tender to cut costs due to imminent bankruptcy his current company will bid for that tender.

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I left primary teaching and retrained as a children's nurse. I wasn't earning for 3 years whilst training but afterwards I started on pretty much the same salary as a teacher. The progression in salary is largely the same. Nursing can be stressful but I found it nowhere near as stressful as teaching, and importantly you don't take your work home with you at the end of your shift. There is more opportunities for flexible working and many different fields to work in. I currently work in outpatients and I'm not that stressed day to day at all. I use my teaching skills when I'm mentoring student nurses, or when teaching parents and children how to use their medication or educating them about their condition. Teaching skills are very useful for when you progress to leadership roles too.

Not myself, but my colleague was a teacher. We work in an NHS Commissioning Support Unit with decent pay & pension.
i have another ex colleague that left & went to teach at my sons school.

And in another two be redundant from AI. Teaching is more future proof.

Is AI going to make accountants redundant?