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.

I am currently recruiting for a G7 post (nearly £34k to just over £40k) in professional services in a University. It closes in less than a week and so far I have three pretty poor applications. I'm praying for someone with your kind of background to apply.

Loads of ex teachers in stand up!

which I am sure is a very easy career to get into

It's averse to op

My friend is trying to get corporate charity work and is finding it impossible without an MA degree..

And to pass accountancy exams you need an exemplary maths ability. I'm not sure what course a PP husband did but my DP and close friend both had to do A LOT of maths for their accounting degrees.

You will not get a journalism role for £45k. You would have to be a department editor or very senior reporter to get near that. Even the Apprentice’s at nationals had degrees and experience and earned around £15-20k. There are 80+ experienced applicants for every good writing role and it's preferred that you have an NCTJ and shorthand. PP are being silly with that one.

I recently changed career out of teaching/ SLT roles in schools.

I now work for an education charity. I took a significant pay cut but it's still an above average salary. The change in my wellbeing due to getting a healthy work life balance is worth every penny.

Sorry posted too soon.
I advise you get on Linkd In and find some senior recruitment specialists in the areas you think you might like to work in. They will usually spend time speaking to you and advising you because they know that they may get a commission if they end up placing you in a role.
Also set up job alerts for local councils, universities, the civil service and job sites like The Guardian.
Get your CV up to date and write a template generic cover letter ready to tailor to specific roles that come up.
I did the above and got 3 interviews, appointed at first interview I attended and cancelled the other 2.
It was loads easier to get a decent job outside of teaching than I thought!
Good luck!

MsRinky - what type of role (obviously without being specific!) I've looked at local uni job pages but always felt "unqualified" even for roles paying a lot less!

I work as an executive assistant in a professional industry and that salary bracket (and above) lies in line with what we earn on average. Good job if you are a "people person" with strong comms skills. Hours very reasonable too for the most part!

The civil service can be feast or famine. For one-off roles you normally have to be very good indeed: you're competing with loads of internal applicants seeking promotion as well.
Sometimes though the civil service will do bulk recruitment, if they're setting up a brand new office to process tax credits, say. Then they'll get maybe 100 people at a time and arrange a comprehensive training programme for them. As long as you're not brain dead or have a criminal record, one of these bulk recruitments should be easy. It's just potluck whether it happens to be anywhere near you and whether the timing suits.

@SquashedFlyBiscuit It's a policy role, but I'm not asking for ultra-specific experience. I need someone who can project manage, write well, assess and interpret complex information from a range of sources and deal with the egos of academics.

It's "averse to", btw, not "adverse". Best to have the correct word usage in future applications. There is a whole world of opportunity out there for you, so good luck in your next adventure.

Shouldn't that be venture, not adventure?

I work in recruitment and I can't imagine there are many jobs that would pay the kind of salary you are looking for with no experience other than teaching. Despite the media and union produced rhetoric, teaching is a very well paid occupation which doesn't really provide you with any obvious transferable skills. You are talking junior/middle-management level and there will always be someone else with sector experience that will beat you to the interviews. That said, if you wish to keep education at the heart of your career whilst not directly teaching, you could look at the education departments in local government particularly in relation to school's improvements, SEND etc, or Ofsted. Local gov is similarly well paid so you may well find that they will match your salary at, for example, an 'Improvements Advisor' level.

It really would pay for most graduates considering teaching, not to...

Did you say what age group you teach? If you have experience with secondary school age - would you be keen to keep working with that age group?

There are currently trainee school therapist jobs being advertised in pilot areas of the country. You'd be employed by the NHS but work with a cluster of schools and hours (and hopefully workload) would be a bit more manageable than teaching. Once in such a role, with experience, you'd have opportunities to progress. Get into the NHS as an OT apprentice?

Friends that have left primary teaching have retrained as accountants, SENCOs, teaching paediatric first aid and teaching English to speakers of other languages. People I know who have left secondary school teaching have gone on to do private tutoring from home.

It's such a shame teaching is so undesirable in this country. The government should be doing all it can to make it a better job for those who enjoy it and are good at it.

@Pestopastamad

The first question to ask is, what are you qualified to do outside of teaching? What subject is your degree in, what experience do you have outside of teaching on that subject?

It is absolutely impossible for a bunch of random people on the internet to give you careers advice based on a few lines in a thread. A degree does not necessarily open the door to a decent salary, as many graduates are now finding out.

You need professional assistance to get someone to look through your skills and CV so they can guide you

Posting on a public forum asking for advice probably isn’t the way forward as your could get a 100 replies recommending something different

Good luck with your search, hope it works out for you

I left teaching several years ago, and I'm yet to get back to the same pay I was on then. I'd love £35k, I left within 3 years so was at the bottom of the pay scale anyway, yet still on less than I was.

Just google:

www.google.co.uk/search?q=what+can+a+teacher+do+besides+teach&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-gb&client=safari

OP - I am also pretty shit at maths and I had no previous experience of accounts, but I now manage an office including all the accounts.... easier than you think, so don’t worry about that bit.

Have you got or are you intending to have your own children? The holidays must be factored in if so - such a bonus.
You can earn a lot as as an educational consultant if you’re good at selling yourself.

I left teaching after 12 years, and became a marketing manager, a job which required good communication skills. (But I had worked in that field before having time off for children then going into teaching.) However, it wasn't easy finding an equivalent level job, and I had to do lots of temporary contracts to build up my CV and show that I had recent and relevant experience. Being a teacher was not a huge plus in this respect - teachers are not perceived as team players! - so I had to extract and sell myself on the skills I acquired in teaching, things like multi-tasking and people management.I also had to work hard on upgrading my IT skills, and went to classes at my own expense to learn Adobe Creative Suite. On salary, even in London where I worked, the salaries were much the same as in teaching. But I thoroughly enjoyed it, no regrets at all.

Meinmytree

I left teaching several years ago, and I'm yet to get back to the same pay I was on then. I'd love £35k, I left within 3 years so was at the bottom of the pay scale anyway, yet still on less than I was.
Why did you leave so soon? Was teaching not what you’d expected? In what ways?

I left teaching a few years ago and became an accountant. As you have a degree, it'd take you three years to qualify and then you'd be comfortably on at least the wages you're looking for.
I'm not sure what qualification PP'd daughter is studying for. I work in audit and did ACA. I have an English degree. The ACA exams are not maths heavy. You need to be able to add, subtract and calculate percentages using a calculator. The most advanced it gets is plugging numbers into a formula and they actually teach that on the course. It's much more about talking to people, understanding their businesses and business risk and understanding if the numbers stack up with what they are saying about how business is going and why.
One of my teacher friends left and went into consultancy. He described it as being on free periods all day. Of course you have plenty of work to do but by and large you can just get on with it. People are nice to you, in my experience targets are reasonable and I find it very easy to have a clear balance between work and home life.

Working for an educational charity? Working as an education coordinator for a museum (not sure that’s the exact title but I mean organising events for kids and stuff like that)?