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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

Teacher or Child Nurse

31 replies

Okaythen2 · 25/03/2019 11:19

Not an aibu but what career do you think has more prospects?

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Redlocks28 · 26/03/2019 09:53

Even if you’re marking and lesson planning at home, you do not have to pay for childcare.

Every teacher I know with their own children has to pay for childcare.

FuckertyBoo · 26/03/2019 10:10

Even if you’re marking and lesson planning at home, you do not have to pay for childcare.*

Every teacher I know with their own children has to pay for childcare.

Presumably not when they’re marking and lesson planning at home though.

Are you a teacher redlocks? Have you considered doing something else that you might get more from? Sorry, it’s just that you seem quite down on it as a career choice, which is a shame.

I don’t blame you btw. It would not be for me at all.

ThanksItHasPockets · 26/03/2019 10:13

Every teacher I know with their own children has to pay for childcare.

For 7.30 - 18.00, sure (and not all childcare providers start early enough) but not for evenings and weekends?

Ferrovairio · 26/03/2019 10:28

I think the public speaking thing is something that you improve as you train and get more experience.

Don’t let that put you off.

My take is; do you want to nurture children for a year or so, helping them learn little by little, puzzling what is stopping them from getting it, sometimes figuring it out and sometimes not.

Or do you want to be involved more intensely with critical periods in a child’s life where what you do or don’t do could have a more immediate impact.

By your thirties, you should have an idea of your tolerance to pressure. Both careers are highly pressured and your performance matters hugely. Do you prefer intense pressure and immediate results, or do you work better with ongoing levels of pressure with less dramatic results?

My view is from having worked in a grade 2 post within the nhs, and having taught also.

I sympathise with how hard it is to make the right career choices later in life. I wish you luck.

FuckertyBoo · 26/03/2019 10:31

Ah thanks ferro! I really don’t think teaching is for me. The biggest draw would be being able to plan my leave a little better to accommodate dcs, which on its own is not enough of a draw. I did think of it for a long while, but I think that sort of stressful job is not for me.

I’d really like to look more at adult nursing and midwifery, which I am planning to do once my youngest is at nursery.

Baconcob · 26/03/2019 10:41

Just to say, children’s nursing certainly isn’t all blood, vomit and sadness as often perceived.

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