Where to look for a new non teaching job?

[tilliebob]

I've had it, totally had it with teaching/parents/staff room politics blah blah blah. Where do you start looking for a job outside of teaching? I must have lots of transferrable skills - but don't know where to start looking/who to ask for advice.

You know it's bad when you have back to work blues on a Sunday night but don't actually work Mondays......

Hate to tell you this, but I now work in a supermarket, on minimum wage. No marking, mind...

Do you enjoy it, Caff? Sounds seriously appealing to me.

I remember when I was still teaching, feeling fiercely envious of every person I met who had a different job. I used to want to grab them and shout 'do you know how lucky you are?

Then I got out. Still hate work, but only like normal people do.

Great question op

Well, only one week until the October fortnight here.....

No, I don't enjoy it, but I don't want to cry on my way to work! It's not that bad. HOWEVER. The financial implications are, of course, huge. I went from a MPS6 plus TLR position to 20 hours a week on £6.57 an hour.

My other half is still a teacher and now on SMT, but we have 2 children and quite a bit of historic debt plus high outgoings. We are just about managing, but weren't before I took the supermarket job, to be honest.

We now know what happens if one member of an almost equal earning professional couple loses their job, and I live in an unsettling state of mild anxiety about what the fuck we would do if DP lost his. It feels very vulnerable, tbh.

I do only work weekends and evenings, so we have no child care costs now, as I am a stay at home mum when DP is at work, then we swap when he gets home. But that's tough with teaching as you'll all know, as obviously he has work to do at evenings and weekends, so it's stressful for all of us and we hardly spend any time together.

So, say I work Friday night, Saturday say 1 until 10 and then Sunday and Monday evenings. He has clubs, or SMT meeting or whatever it is on the other nights - well. Let's just say there's a lot of late night working going on in this house for him with DS2 being only 2 and not conducive to doing proper professional "homework" around.

And my shifts change every bloody week!