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

[misjudgement]

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

So HELP me!

lawyer now working for a charity ensuring compliance with government protocols for project development.

Accountant

Bobbypin I personally feel it is what you make it. Some people get heavily involved in policy and so on and spend a lot of time posting on the listening into action page (all NHS organisations have an LIA forum. It's a national initiative to get staff communicating openly with management) debating small issues. Some just go to work and do their job without stressing about things (that'd be me)

Really unless you are lower management, the red tape doesn't really affect you. The service isn't perfect but a big part of that is people's absolute resistance to change! But day to day it's just you, your crewmate and your patients. One job at a time. People who see it that way are, I think, the happier people.

Saying that some people enjoy being involved in the running of the service and there are ways and means- either moving into station and then local managment and progressing upwards of becoming a union rep and sticking it to the man.

Mental health though. Oh god. Terrible for all involved. But that's NHS wide!

I'm retired and it is the happiest time of my life.
I appreciate I am very lucky.

Emergency Medical Dispatcher. I love it :)

Used to be teaching, now in HR. Million times happier and I've not worked on annual leave since leaving.

I used to be a librarian

fagashmil (love the name!) I kind of fell into it. I applied for an admin position in the same company after having child no 2 and 6 years off work. I spent 4 years doing boring admin and stuffing a lot of envelopes then I got a promotion to events coordinator, did that job for 2 years and then got this promotion to Client Services. My background is PR/Marketing so that has been useful. I've learnt as I've gone along but I don't find selling too difficult really.

I'm a Communications and Knowledge Manager for a global IT company. Love it and I work from home

I teach but don't want to leave. I just want more sleep and less marking. But I also want to be in St Tropez with Tom Hardy on a yacht feeding me nutella off a spoon (sexiest food on earth). The odds of both are similarly slim.

I'm an advisory teacher for children in care- I work with social services and schools.

NHS admin, small business owner and sort my mothers finances out for which I get paid