To wonder what you do if you don't teach!

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So many teachers on here and so many seem to have left or leaving.

So HELP me!

Client Services Manager in Special Needs Education which means I get to work term time! Whoop!

PA to a CEO, I bet I know quite a few people on here, our area is quite specialist, and match with a few of yours!

I never was a teacher although my mother was. Am a lawyer.

SENCo-its a bit of a side step from teaching but still obviously in school. There's quite a lot of paperwork and red tape, but I prefer it to classroom teaching.

Client Services Manager in Special Needs Education which means I get to work term time! Whoop!

That sounds interesting-what sort of things do you do in that role? Can I ask how you got/found the job?

I work for a charity and have senior practitioner role in our city's large drug and alcohol service. I'm also a qualified counsellor and see clients in private practice.
You have a PM.

I'm a family support worker in a school (pastoral and safeguarding).
I am a qualified paeds nurse but not currently practising, hoping to go back to nursing when DS is a bit older.

Basically I design and sell training packages to clients (schools, LEA, NHS, private care companies, charities, parent support groups) who work with children and adults with additional needs. I also handle social media and marketing.

Because a majority of the training takes place in term time I work term time plus 2 weeks in the summer, so in theory I only take 4 weeks off in the summer but I usually add annual leave onto it to make up the 6 weeks. I do watch my emails when I'm not in the office and do go in if I really need to but a majority of the time things tick over ok and anything that really needs doing I can handle from home. It works so well with having kids as I'm off when they are off, plus unlike a teacher I earn holidays pro rata so get time off when the kids are at school too so I can go to sports days and Xmas plays etc.

I was training to be a teacher, it made me unwell and fucked up.

Now I'm a nanny (I was for three years pt before teacher training) full time, and I love it. I still get to work with children, which I love. I still get to help their development and watch them learn and grow. But there's no lesson planning, no stress.

How did you get into that catherine?

I teach students to be nurses at a university and it's (mostly) a lovely job... though sometimes you're stuck between the NHS politics and Higher Education politics ....which aren't always comfortable bedfellows

I work in a shared service centre ... and recognise the description that 44pumplane gave of her job, so I'm wondering whether I might have built that on our database

Are you just asking "what jobs do people do?"

Or do you specifically want to hear from people who used to be teachers?

Retired from a long career in Marketing, PR and Employee Communications. Now earning a bit of pin money and keeping busy being a photographer.

I'm a Senior Administrator in HE

I am a small business owner, actually have 2 different ones

Trills I think the OP is really wanting to know primarily what former teachers do now but I imagine any fresh ideas might be helpful to someone looking at a career change.

Data entry for a starter business selling on line, also deal with customer messages and posting orders. Dream of earning as much as minimum wage. I work out the weekly sales figures - I know the business can't afford to pay me more at the moment. Lucky that my DH earns a good salary and I earn just enough to get by, but have never regretted walking away from 20 years of teaching. Couldn't cope any more with the constant fear of not being good enough, the pressure of having never completed everything, the permanent exhaustion. I have done some pupil premium tutoring, which I loved, but think that current budget cuts have ended that. I miss working with children but it wasn't able to compensate for the overwhelming awfulness of the rest of the job.

SAHM / supply

A question for those now working for the NHS: How does one public sector compare to the other? I realise the NHS is under a similar level of cuts and budget restrictions as education is, but is it worth doing? I would love to be a paramedic (definitely a pipe dream at the moment) but I'm wondering if it is worth leaving one pile pf bureaucratic mess for another with worse working hours and holidays

A question for those now working for the NHS: How does one public sector compare to the other? I realise the NHS is under a similar level of cuts and budget restrictions as education is, but is it worth doing? I would love to be a paramedic (definitely a pipe dream at the moment) but I'm wondering if it is worth leaving one pile pf bureaucratic mess for another with worse working hours and holidays

Currently a SAHP. I may yet return to teaching in the future, I left at the end of a contract rather than being burned out in a permanent position. I found I wasn't meeting the current needs of my family by teaching full time so am watching this space. Sadly with the general election earlier this year, I can't see the pressures on teachers easing in the next few years during the term of this government.

The idea of retraining as a fitness instructor is appealing as an alternative move particularly as the DCs get more independent in a few years, but for now I'm happy spending more time with my family.

I work in a therapeutic community for LAC children who have suffered some form of abuse.

I work in a fertility centre mainly performing hycosys.
I'm a med student too. All my mates are teachers or going into teaching

My Aunty was a teacher she's now a legal sec!