Offered a perm job NOT teaching my subject - really confused.

[MrsGherkin]

The new job is 70% DT and I'm an Art teacher. It's in a fab school with lovely people so would be nice to stay. But I still feel quite gutted - am I being ungrateful? I've filled my X colleague's shoes so well that now they want me to do her job and basically I'll be giving up ever doing Art above KS3 again and then only for a few hours each week. I'm really passionate about Art and I paint professionally in my spare time. My instinct is telling me to leave after my contract's up but there's nothing out there and by my head is telling me to be practical, it's a bird in hand. It's lovely to be wanted but I just am not really passionate about DT in the way I am about Art and I'd be pining whenever I saw the art exam's in progress.

I would stick it out and look for art jobs. Unless you live in London jobs are scarce.

Depends where you are. In London, jobs will come up. Where I am, rurally, it's dead men's boots. If I were still secondary, in my subject i've seen two jobs come up in 6 years. When I lived in London, it was jobs everywhere!

That's what I though super ram and plebasconsidered It's London but have family commitments so need to keep commute to around 40 mins I reckon.

Bump, still going round in circles here. It's employment vs job confidence and satisfaction.

Please can any one else suggest what's it's like to not teach your preferred subject

I've been teaching out of my trained area for years (scared and needed a job etc). Unfortunately I've painted myself into a corner and couldn't teach my main subject anymore as I've been out of it so long.

I am teaching out of my subject area now (and GCSE with no resources or lesson plans etc) and it is seriously stressing me out. I hate it. I get graded for my marking, my teaching etc and it's tough because it's not my area, AND my motivation is low as it's not really what i want to do.