I want a job that will pay 35-40k (leaving teaching)

[Pestopastamad]

I'm a teacher, thinking about leaving the profession. I've got a 1st class education degree, and I've been teaching for a few years. Ive enjoyed it so far, but I fancy a change now.

Ideally I want a job that will lead to a 35-40k salary in the first 10 years. I've taught since graduation, so don't really have any ideas what I would like to do other than teach. I would like a job that matches or exceeds my teaching salary. Any suggestions about what I could work as? I'd rather not retrain, but wouldn't be totally adverse to a master's conversion course for the right industry/role.

@Lincolnfield

Go into a school (inner LONDON etc) and like the OP @Pestopastamad says as a teacher, have to deal with drug dealing, prostitution etc. From personal experience, a stabbing in the school reception between a gang and a pupil ! So actually yes, they do deal with pretty similar situations.

Many jobs in PR/Communications sector won't pay that sort of money without an MA or MBA. You might need to take a drop to gain experience too, sorry.

Just a comment about libraries. The profession is basically dying. In my area most qualified librarians have been replaced by library assistants. DH qualified about 20 years ago, still working as a manager but not the job he trained for. There are academic posts but few and far between.

Look at university professional services - they tend to pay well and have incremental salaries

That's where I work and for the job I do it is not paid well. Yes, you get increments, but only for 5 years, and then you're stuck at the top of the grade with no further pay rises except an annual "cost of living" percentage (which in real terms is about a 12% loss of earnings currently. 1.5%? Oh, you're sooooo generous!).
Without the experience the OP will not come near the salary she's looking for within 10 years

@Pestopastamad I've found a job for you OP

Check out this job: Educational Content Lead
www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/1660034593

@SquashedFlyBiscuit no, I don't think she has.

These are the jobs currently being advertised by CILIP:

https://informationprofessionaljobs.com
The school library type jobs and graduate trainee posts tend to pay less, but there are several on there that pay a lot more. There's also quite a lot on jobs.ac.uk, especially in areas like research data management.

They're more likely to be near cities - I did live in a rural area but relocated to find library work about 15 years ago which has really paid off, but I was single and childfree then so it was easy to relocate

HE isn’t a good sector to work in. Salaries are not fixed nationally like they are in schools. Each institution sets its own salary levels, and with the massive funding cuts in recent years many HE institutions have made massive cuts. There have been redundancies and salary cuts, and some institutions have abolished salary scales so it’s not possible to earn any higher than the entry level salary. Many permanent full time roles have been got rid of and replaced with term time only roles, in some cases HE institutions have moved to being staffed by hourly paid agency teachers. Funding and resources within the classroom are sparse - not just lack of paper and pens, but also lack of teaching materials and essential support services for students with SEN. There is no future in HE, everyone I know who teaches in that sector is desperate to get out.

One of the failiings of the police service - note it's no longer a police force, more's the pity - is this policy of accepting graduate recruits and elevating them into senior posts. They don't come up through the streets. They have little knowledge of real life and a significant criminal underclass where the rules of normal behaviour are very different and, frankly, these people with their 'learned in a book' theories create difficulties and dangers for old school coppers.

I couldn’t agree more, @Lincolnfield. It frankly horrifies me when my DH is out with certain colleagues. He doesn’t have the back up needed in dangerous situations and it simply isn’t safe.

I meant FE but I can’t edit!

HE isn’t much better with regard to redundancies and employing hourly paid staff instead of proper permanent employees though. In most cases you will need a PhD and a research background to teach in HE too.

I think marketing would suit you. Copywriting/content perhaps? Or PR.

Off topic really but I find it interesting/slightly saddening that a PP would rather the police were called a Force than a Service. I believe it was partly agitation from within the police themselves that saw the change of name.

I could do a whole A Level Language lesson on the difference! and might well do juts that!

What an interesting thread! Just joining in to say that I am a qualified accountant (ACA) and you really don't need to be good at maths. Numerate - yes, but GCSE maths is enough.

Civil service if you can write.
Not rtft.

I'm 🤯 at the idea you don't need to be good at maths to be an accountant. How?