Just to change the subject OP, you remind me of another thread recently where someone implied teaching and being a TA are the same job. ermmm... no.
If you want to be a TA and want to know about that, start a thread specifically on this subject. Otherwise, you are going to get a lot of feedback form both camps, and probably more teachers. Both jobs work with children, in schools. But they have entirely different demands, responsibilities, pay , terms and conditions and so on.
I am a teacher , and at the moment, no holidays in the world make up for the day to day shit being thrown at me (fortunately , in my case, this is a metaphor). DH is also a teacher, in a private school, with really long holidays, yet still hates it while he's there.
No one works in teaching for a bit of pin money. There are some people in schools who do - usually women with highly paid husbands. this is more frequently in jobs with no real student contact, such as admin and finance. And even they have to get used to the creaking buildings, dirty toilets , pathetic cleaning, forgetful teachers with stuff that needs doing, working to impossible deadlines, low budgets and job insecurity that go with those jobs.
If you want to TA with SEN, expect tough days, lots of emotional and physical demands, high pressure, a noisy working environment, and very low pay. You have to really want to do it. Time off is not the correct motivation!