Career change 50% salary cut

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but hoping for 100% improvement in quality of life. Coming out of teaching. It is time to change. Share your experiences please of career changes and pay cuts.

Why do you assume you will take a 50% salary cut?

I knew you would be taking about teaching!

Sorry-I haven’t left yet so can’t help you.

The (many) colleagues that have left seem to have coped with massive pay drops though and all look 100% better having escaped!

Ha! I took a 50% pay cut to go INTO teaching. I must be insane!

I have left Nursing and taken a job with a 50% pay cut for similar hours ! I'm hoping it will be worth it for so much less stress. No amount of money is worth that much stress !!

I took an initial pay drop of around 70% to start my own business, I was technically on maternity leave at the time so I guess it wasn't as bad as it might've been, but it paid off in the end. =)

Why do you assume you will take a 50% salary cut?

Looking at the jobs I can transfer skills to, the starting salary is 50% less. It seems to be a career change rather than a sideways move. The jobs teachers would typically have progressed to would have been in the LEA education department but this doesn’t exist now with Academy status depleting that provision.

I’m 55 and the age women would typically have been thinking of retiring. The extension of working life seems to prompt career change instead in order to sustain health.