It just makes me feel awful

[UltraKaren3957]

I work as a teacher and I feel seriously burned out. I took some sick leave for a month and it helped a bit but I still feel a bit crap. I don't want to teach anymore, sick of the issues and stress. I tried changing schools but it hasn't changed how I feel. I'm getting to to the point where I hate going in to work and I hate my job.

I'm very lucky that my financial situation is good and I can afford to take a significant pay cut.

What low stress easy job could I do that would be full time? How can I recover from burnout when I have a mortgage and bills to pay?

anyone?

What would you like to do? What interests you?

Speak to a life coach or have some counselling. Don’t leap from one bad situation to another. Good luck you have all my sympathy

I left about a year ago.

For job suggestions:

Try the life after teaching group on Facebook.

Also the work from home hub on Facebook (they post fully remote jobs)

I did some online teaching for a while - there are plenty of adverts for this in places like tes or indeed.

If you want to change careers entirely have a think about both your degree and do you have any line management experience.

@Eyesopenwideawake not much at the moment. If it wasn't for bills I could quite happily be unemployed.

Will look up the facebook group thank you @Octavia64

I wish I could just get an easy job, or take a break from working for a bit but obv bills to pay!

I was fortunate to get a divorce settlement (well - fortunate - you know what I mean) so I was able to take a sabbatical and time off,

Teachers do a lot of admin so any kind of admin job is usually fine. I've seen civil service recommended as well but no personal experience.

I work with an ex-teacher, it's for a nice small charity, very cosy. So I guess I'm saying maybe go for some admin, advice line, or client facing roles, maybe check out your local Wellbeing team at your council, in the right pay bracket etc and make sure the team dynamics seem good.

I work in Ed tech and learning design at a local uni. Half the people in my team were teachers.

I used to teach - I went into industry. Never took a paycut of any sort. The advice depends on what you teach and what your qualifications are really. My workplace has taken on loads of ex-teachers; invaluable for training roles and pastoral i.e. looking after apprentices.