To not want to go into teaching

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I've recently completed a BA Early Years and had planned to go on to study a PGCE and teach in primary education. However, I hear more and more that teaching is not an advised career route.. working in preschools, nurseries etc is notoriously poorly paid. Can anyone advise well paid jobs which involve working with children? I really want to put my degree to good use!

It has changed for the worse in recent years. There is much more scrutiny and admin than there was before the first of my maternity leaves 6 years ago. Students are treated as data, and there is flack for the teachers when students fall foul of statistical averages. Frequently, expectations are just unachievable.

I love the act of teaching, but there's just too much bagge with it at present. I'm tired of perpetually feeling that I'm doing a disservice to my own children, me, DH or myself at any given moment.

Saying that, if you're free of other commitments then it wouldn't be so much of an issue.

You probably need more school based experience to know if it's for you. I'm a teacher and I love my job. The kids are great, every day is different, and the reward when children achieve are really what make it worth while. Of course it's stressful, but to be fair, all my friends with similar paid times in industries are under stress and pressure at work, and they are not being given 13 weeks holiday a year.

Similarly paid jobs sorry.

Sister was a teacher and was always stressed. Loved the kids but hated the system.

Private schools, Speech and language, psychotherapist are a few options.

Teachers don't get the parents support largely because they don't have the time to treat children as children. They are constantly looking at the next steps - education never ends. Nobody stops to celebrate the good stuff.

DD IS a high flyer - yet all the feed back is for what she needs to work on - how to ol prove. When really they could stand back and alay "great year! Well done"

It always comes across as of she's failing, yet I know she isn't

if money is your primary concern, any kind of direct work with people (of any age) is unlikely to satisfy your needs.

I feel very sad reading about people who want to help people but only if it earns them good money (whatever that may mean). We all need to live, yes. But you won't get far in the caring professions with that kind of focus.

My husband and his old colleagues, all policemen for 30 years, all advised their kids not to go into the police, too much pressure, stress and paperwork.

One of my kids is a nurse, lots of older nurses said don't be a nurse too much pressure, stress and paperwork.

My eldest is a teacher, he advised his younger siblings don't be a teacher, you can guess the rest.

I think things are tough, everyone in the public sector is under the microscope, everything is regulated and examined and inspected.

Welcome to the 21st century.

I wish someone had advised me not to go into teaching.

This is what comes from studying education as an academic subject. If you had followed the teacher-training route you would have had practical experience of teaching and working with children, and possibly discovered that you enjoyed it, enough to compensate for the work-load. The pay is not bad, and the opportunities for career development and promotion are good.
But if you are simply interested in money and an easy time, you are in the wrong area.