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

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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.

Lincoln, the roles of a police officer are many and varied. Yes, you need the tough front line cops maintaining order but you also need people from all walks of life with many other skills.
Intelligence officers, schools officers, soit officers, safeguarding officers, neighbourhoods officers, family liaison officers etc etc etc. That’s what makes it such a great job. It’s crying out for people with skills the op describes- good communication is so important. And there are many other transferable skills

You wouldn’t start on the salary desired however would work up to £40k quickly, in London anyway, and then there’s always the option to go for rank and then your earning potential is really good

Not sure about journalism as a suggestion. You need professional qualification and to start it is usually unpaid internships or if you are lucky a trainee job on a local paper for about 15k a year! Takes years to get up to a decent salary.

Something in the private sector. If you live near London or can commute into town do that too, much better salaries

Look at university professional services - they tend to pay well and have incremental salaries and reasonable pensions. Good staff development too so you could work your way up.
Librarianship can pay well depending on the sector (universities and law both pay well). £30-50k but very sector dependent (public libraries pay a lot lower!). Very diverse sector. Research data management is full of vacancies and well paid. Does need retraining/a postgrad qualification but you can do that part time whilst working in a lower level role

What about learning and development in a large professional organisation? They usually firm part of an organisations HR team and are responsible for developing a programme of professional courses to ensure the organisation's workforce is kept up to date.

I second the pp who suggested you look at higher education. Widening participation and employer engagement are big themes in many institutions currently and these roles are generally well-paid and have a variety of perks (good holiday entitlement and flexibility).

I presume you live in the south east because I know of very few people earning 45k in either teaching or academia after only 10 years.

Also, I think that whichever path you choose, you need to be open to retraining. I've also seen a few posts which seem to infer that Project Management is a cinch to get into. It isn't. Sure, the qualifications are relatively easy to obtain (however expensive if you're self-funded), but no company would dream of taking on a Project Manager without significant experience at junior level in implementation. It's my subject area and my DH also works in the field. It's a common misconception.

Librarianship came up on another thread, but I’m not sure why it’s being suggested as you need a PG qualification, the pay is poor and the job market dreadful.

Sorry - revision to my previous comment. I misread the thread. 35k is completely attainable in a middle management position in HE. I thought I'd read that you were looking for 45k. Damn my lousy eyesight!

40k here in events with no degree, but I’ve worked my way up to a Manager role. Look for support services jobs in Charities it Universities, they pay well compared to other industries.

Charities OR Universities!

As a librarian, I'm also mystified why some people think it's a well paid profession, especially at the entry level. Many law firms no longer employ their own librarians, and jobs at universities are like gold dust. Many public libraries now run on volunteers. Health is about the only sector that's still recruiting. Just have a look on the CILIP website and even jobs.ac.uk to see the salary levels, and that's usually with an MA AND experience. The best paid "ordinary" librarian job I've ever seen was as an information officer with a pharmaceutical company for £60K, a few years ago. And there are certain jobs that come up again and again - BAT, for instance, advertise periodically. But many, many libraries have been closed in the last ten years.

And university librarian posts are extraordinarily competitive to get. The same applies to all those lovely "administrative assistant" posts at universities that people seem to think are incredibly easy to get...And, until they're experienced, most journalists also get paid a pittance.

My suggestion would be cybersecurity - suspect there'll be LOTS of work in that area in the not too distant future. Or green energy/sustainable agriculture or, at the moment, anything in the vegan arena. Or sales for an educational publisher in your subject area. It's hard work, but I have met sales reps who earn a pretty good salary from it.

Think of the fields you'd like to work in and have a look at their trade press/websites to see what sort of salary you can expect for various levels of experience and qualifications. Indeed is also good for ball park salary figures, also glassdoor and Reed.

Isn't Dominic Raab after clever people to join the civil service at the moment?

@chocolateteapot20 I think the librarian jobs must vary depending on location. I've seen several people in the last few years change career, do their library MA either full or part time and then be on a salary of £35-45k within five years. I work for a university and we struggle to recruit and often have to re-advertise, for jobs that are on a scale £35/45k.

@RidingMyBike @chocolateteapot20 would you say it's worth the risk of doing a MA and trying to get a job without prior experience? I have always had an idea of being a librarian (almost signed up to a MA course a few years ago) with the view of being a full time librarian or else information officer or archiving. I'm scared to take the risk in case there aren't enough jobs where I am (london)

Loval libraries here are staffed by library assistants on about £10 an hour...

Has op abandoned the thread?

You could retrain as a speech and language therapist. 3-4 year degree or a masters. However you’d only reach a salary of 40-45k once you were quite senior. There’s a shortage in some specialities and some geographical locations, so it’s easier to climb the career ladder in those circumstances.

@SquashedFlyBiscuit but we're not talking about library assistant jobs. They are, indeed, poorly paid. We're talking about the OP retraining for a professional library post.

Well yes, but Im saying that most libraries around here aren't actually run day to day by librarians but librarian assistants. There really arent that many jobs.

@AsleepAllDay it would be hard with no experience whatsoever, especially for something like archives which is rather over-subscribed. Also, it would be hard to do the MA without practical examples to refer to etc. If you've got transferable skills though that would help (eg working with people, public speaking, management, budgets, teaching). London seems to have lots of jobs and vacancies appear all the time. CILIP charges a lot to advertise vacancies so a lot of them don't appear on there.
It's certainly realistic if you could afford a few years of doing a more poorly paid job alongside the MA (I did mine part-time) and/or volunteering. I've seen people do the career change and out the other side to a well paid library job in 3-5 years (the three year one though had a partner covering the rent and no children which meant she could do it in a very focussed way).

@SquashedFlyBiscuit public libraries presumably? That's only one sector of library world, and one in which I've never worked! Not much point going into public librarianship as hardly any professional roles.

Public libraries yes, but that was my point. I looked into it when I was considering retraining but there really arent the jobs available in my (non city) area.

OP hasnt give their location have they?

Thanks @RidingMyBike ! I would probably have to do it part time along with my job which would take a few years but volunteering as well would be hard... sigh

Just catching up on posts, some of the suggestions are great, it's a really useful starting point so thank you!
It is interesting how different opinions are about the same sectors/roles jobs.
Just to clarify, I'm not expecting to walk into a job tomorrow paying 40k, it's what I would like to earn. I'm lucky to be in a position that I can afford to take the pay-cut at the moment, to about 22k, but with the view to eventually match/exceed teacher pay.

@Lincolnfield Being a police officer is definitely not for me, huge respect to those that do the job. One thing I will say though, is that most people would very be surprised by the things that you see/hear/experience working in an incredibly deprived inner city school, teaching the children of the very people you mention in your PP.

Supply work as a teacher, private tutor or lecturer