Jobs after teaching?

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Hi all!

please help me! I’m just doing a poll really. If you have left teaching, what do you do now?

I’m so lost! Thank you 😊

My brother left and became an ambulance call handler.

Thank you! Does he enjoy it?

My partner wants to shift from teaching to youth work/safeguarding. He's debating doing a social work degree course that you can do as a second degree and be paid while you 'work' doing it, then using it to access other roles in social care. I work in a similar sector and it's a common theme.

There's a whole group on Facebook about this. I think it's called Life after Teaching.

This doesn't count but I do supply. I only do EYFS and KS1 and I don't do stand by and I only do day to day and not long or medium term.

I was an English language/TEFL teacher, and I moved sideways to become a self-employed academic translator (second language into English). I’ve been doing it for nearly 20 years now and am just starting to slowly wind down and will hopefully retire in a couple of years.

So helpful! Thank you! I’m particularly interested in the social work degree; having worked in schools, I always swore i wouldn’t become a social worker but I could change my mind if I got paid to do it/ work alongside, and if it led to other things.

One of my friends became a postman, one became a 999 call handler, one now tutors to the rich and famous, one is a support worker for vulnerable adults.

I’ve actually looked into being a postie!

I've sort of gone the other way and become a university lecture after a career in practice (policing). I love my role now.

The one thing I'd caution against is going into social work if you want to leave teaching because of workload/stress issues. Most social workers I met were on their knees with ridiculous case loads (particularly if working with children) and the stress can be very high due to the level of risk they carry. You'll be out of the frying pan into the fire!

If you want to leave teaching because you found you don't like children anymore/just lost the love/disagree with the way teaching is developing or whatever, it will be less of an issue.

Good luck whatever you decide!

My partner retrained as a psychotherapist. She was a teacher for 20+ years.

I’m an ex TA now working for Children’s Services and sooooo much happier

@chocolateisavegetable what are you doing for children’s services, if you don’t mind me asking?

Thank you @Resilience . I know it’s a tough job. I just want to do something different, although I still want to work with and for people.

Friends and colleagues are:

In Children’s Services

• Childcare sufficiency officers (LA) ( officer rates don't match teacher earnings)
• WRAC officer ( new role,due to the DfE guidance on the expectations of wrap around care provision)
• SEND hub manager

Another is

• Mentor for teaching students at a local uni ( only paid per student - so not a great earner)
• An estate agent (good with people)

• A HT friend is a uni lecturer. The uni had newly set up a primary teaching offer.

Additionally three headteacher and two deputy headteacher have left to consider their options. They need a break. None of them want to work with people at all!

I'm a business and development manager

Join the Facebook group exit the classroom and thrive. It's excellent.

My husband says lots of teachers make excellent customer success managers :-)

Following as I’m in the same situation 😞 on maternity leave at the moment but I just don’t want to go back.

is there much supply work about? How much do you get paid? I did supply when I first qualified (admittedly 12 years ago) and was only paid £80-90 per day. Nursery costs more than this so I’d need it to be a LOT more to make it worthwhile!! Have schools got money to pay supply teachers or are they just using TAs?

Post-teaching my good friend became a training officer in a Trade Union, significantly better pay - if you're that way inclined politically.

I did this was a primary teacher did lots of send support jobs too retrained as a social worker now work in a children with disabilities team still busy but lots more flexible, better work life balance pay is similar

I'm an NHS speech & language therapist. I love it - still work with children, loads of useful skills & experience from teaching, but workload is now more reasonable/normal. I had to do a 2 year Masters. Highly recommend it!!

Work based learning. The apprentices I work with are mostly a joy.

Wow, this is also something I’ve considered! What’s your first degree in? And, was it expensive to do the SALT masters? Thank you!

I really appreciate the responses! Thank you! I have joined a couple of groups on fb too 😊

It might not be for everyone but I was a mainstream primary school teacher for 15 years and grew to loathe the system and got bored of the job. Before I left I applied for an SLT role in an SEMH school that was opening up and I haven't looked back! I wfh one day a week doing admissions and tribunal witness statements, and the rest I do annual reviews, DSL duties, child protection conferences and get to work with the most AMAZING group of children I could ever hope to meet. Long gone are my data and marking days ♥️

I work for an insurance company - get a management role, you have all the organizational skills and people skills to do a good job.

We have in house trainers, they role out the annual stuff, work training and new starters - always busy!!