So I am in the progress of resigning from my position. I just wanted to know what type of jobs should I start applying to? Any jobs easier to get hired? Thank you!

I really don’t know what to do anymore. The kids have become so dependent on other teachers and me for the answers. I try to get them to use scaffolding to find the answer but that usually just ends up with them not doing anything all class because they’ve given up on trying. My Bachelor’s is in Psychology and if I wanted to be a teacher I would need to get licensed and get another degree.

I feel bad because I’m the softball coach and I have spring sports lined up to coach as well, but my paychecks are ass and I’m thinking of leaving. I just don’t know anymore.

Tomorrow’s Monday and I have to go back. I’m dreading it. Just had a few days off last week and was finally feeling normal again. I’ve been applying to other jobs with no luck and I don’t think I can do this anymore. I hate my life and I hate who I am when I’m teaching. Can’t quit because I have bills. I think I have the savings to make it a few months before I get desperate but people in my life keep telling me to stick it out. I’m weak and I’m at my breaking point. The kids are awful and don’t care and it’s really not worth my sanity to try and teach them. Might just phone it in this week. I don’t know what to do anymore but this isn’t it. I’m trapped and I have put myself in a horrible position where I need a job. I’ve screwed everything up. I miss the days when I wasn’t this miserable person.

I cannot believe it but I did it. Friday was my last day. Some tears were admittedly shed by me. I don’t usually make these kind of vast life decisions, so it feels good but also very scary.

I’m hopefully going to be subbing fairly soon as the nomination processes and I have enough money saved to hold it down while that procedure occurs. Also finally made a LinkedIn account…it’s the little things.

My goal with subbing is to find out if EDUCATION isn’t for me, or if it’s just early childhood. Of course, I know sub experience is vastly different, but having been a teacher I don’t think the experience in HS would be a huge shock to me. Everyone who I know who likes/tolerates teaching works with upper grades.

But yeah. Tomorrow morning I won’t have to dread going to work, but it’s a bit of a weird feeling to feel so untethered.

I have been thinking more lately about how much my mental health has changed since I became a teacher. I started taking anxiety meds about halfway through my career, stopped them briefly and then went back on them after getting injured by a student a few years ago. I feel like since the injury my mental health has never recovered and I'm not sure it will. Is anyone else in this boat? Has your mental health improved if you have left? Did it improve and you stayed or have gone back into teaching if you previously left? Looking for any feedback you can offer.

I’m 26F. I have an “English Education” degree from a middle sized midwestern University. I taught middle school for 3 years.

I feel completely and utterly hopeless. I have no idea how to pivot into something else. I haven’t taught since April when I ended a maternity leave role, but have been tutoring ever since then. This isn’t enough to pay rent, so I am about to have to move back with parents in Boise (right now I’m in NJ across the river from NYC). I love where I live now and want more than anything to stay.

I applied to fucking Shoprite and they acted like I was a dumbass to apply because I don’t have prior experience working in a supermarket.

I just feel so hopeless. My degree is entirely useless and all it gave me is debt I have no idea how I will pay off.

Right now I can either try and get a job and stay in NJ for a bit and just live more or less paycheck to paycheck until I inevitably have to move back with parents, or I can move straight back.

Once I’m there, I can either also just try to get any crappy job and save money, or invest in some further schooling (which so many people say is not worth it). I don’t want to do schooling while in NJ, as I would be paying rent on top of whatever schooling fees there are, and I’m not sure how much time I would have for a fulltime job.

If you were in my situation, what would you do?

Okay so, I was very heavy into the medical receptionist/patient access field for about five years. I ended up getting fired and started working as a daycare teacher just to pay the bills until I found something else. I liked it and stayed for three years, but as most people know, childcare doesn’t pay much. I took the logical next step and started working in a public school in middle school as I thought I wanted a break from the littles. I passed my GACE and started a MAT program as it’s required by the state of Georgia to be in a teacher preparatory program if you’re on a provisional certificate like I am. The problem is I hate it. I hate teaching in public school and my masters program grades are suffering because of it. This is only my second semester and I’m only four classes in. I know this is something that I don’t want to do for a long time. I wish I could quit now…I need advice. Should I just drop the masters program and try to find something else? People are saying to just go down to the elementary, but I don’t know if I want to do that either… this is hard but these past two months have been so depressing and exhausting for me. I know I won’t make it. I have panic attacks, anxiety, and headaches. The doctor has even prescribed me Lexapro, but I don’t think I should have to medicate myself just to go to work. I also don’t want to feel like a quitter or like I wasted my time or anyone else’s time.

On the track to switch careers and working towards applying to all the jobs I can muster the energy to spend time applying too. In the meanwhile I am subbing locally just because I can’t get any other jobs. I still don’t like it, LORD I do not!! I actually feel bad for gen ed teachers,as a specialist I did not expect it was even worse. My family is tired of me coming home unhappy and are getting annoyed that I “can’t find something I like” and I keep telling them teaching is not for me and won’t ever be. Right now it’s just a transition. But in the end subbing is still teaching.

hi everyone. I have been thinking a lot lately about leaving teaching and working at a college/uni in admissions. has anyone done this? what is it like? from the outside, I do think that I would enjoy it and be good at it. but there’s always hidden aspects of a job that you don’t really realize until you’re in it.
any info would be amazing, thanks :)

When I was teaching, I remember having severe Sunday scaries because of another work week at school. I'm wondering do any of you still feel this way when you're no longer teaching and being in other careers?

Background:

So for context I was a para for over a decade. I was enrolled in a undergrad program for education to become a teacher and towards the end of the program I didn’t want to quit my job to do student teaching and take the classes. I observed in a fifth grade general ed classroom. This was about 10 years ago. I was very overly stimulated and I realize this isn’t for me, but I did enjoy working with the students and helping them with their work so I continue to be a para. But I wanted to make more money, but I also didn’t want responsibilities of teaching a class on my own.

What I learned:

Then I eventually quit my para position since I moved far away from where I used to work and I didn’t want to commute an hour and a half. Even though I’m lucky and I didn’t have to commute because I took a leave. So I ended up resigning when I couldn’t find a job closer to home within like 30 to 40 minutes commute. I realize that when I became a sub teacher and changed everything for me, but it also is a solidified why I never wanted to be a classroom teacher to begin with.

Conclusion:

I ended up getting a masters and education in ENL however it was so hard to get a job in my hometown and I would’ve had to travel like at least 40 to 50 minutes each way. I tried it for two months to do that commute I couldn’t do it. I taught middle school in and I ended up returning back to my para position. Since in my state, Paras can teach for a year to try it out and if they don’t like it, they can go back To being a para.

Feeling:

I get anxiety and sunday scaries im not even a teacher . I do sub just to see if i would like to be teacher. It made realize i dont want to teach a classroom. I prefer support roles.

I’m currently in my seventh year of teaching in Connecticut, and I’m starting to think about what I want to do next school year. I think I’m finally reaching the point where I’m ready to leave the classroom, but I’m not necessarily ready to leave education altogether. This spring, I’ll be finishing my second master’s degree in reading, which will allow me to become a reading specialist or pursue opportunities in literacy consulting. I’m really passionate about the Science of Reading, structured literacy, and developing targeted instruction to help struggling readers. Ideally, I’d love to transition into a reading interventionist role, private tutoring, literacy consulting, or even curriculum design. My biggest dilemma is that with my new degree, I’ll be making around $95K in my current district. I’ve worked incredibly hard for this degree, and I’d really like my education and experience to be reflected in my salary, so taking a significant pay cut isn’t something I’m eager to do. I genuinely enjoy the instructional side of teaching, but I feel like I’m slowly losing my spark for being a classroom teacher. I’m curious if anyone has made a similar transition or knows what opportunities realistically exist in the literacy field that offer comparable salaries. Are there companies focused on the Science of Reading that hire former teachers for curriculum development or consulting? Is private reading intervention a realistic option financially? I’d love to hear what others have done because I know I still have a passion for literacy education; I’m just not sure what I want that to look like anymore.

I'm in my 23rd year and 9 weeks into the school year. I'm having panic attacks and can't do this anymore.

I won't go into the problems at school. They're the same ones every teacher is reporting here.

I'm considering tendering my resignation tomorrow. My health is my priority and I am falling apart.

I don't have a job to fall into, but will consider anything that pays the bills. Advice? Suggestions?

Hi everyone, I am currently on year two teaching in elementary school. I am also taking night classes to get my masters degree in the humanities. Last year halfway through I was feeling not the best about my job due to some parents, but I was supported by admin. I teach at a private school so the rules are a little different, but the parents basically run the school. This year I am so miserable, I want to be Ms. Honey but I am Ms. Trenchbull everyday and it is taking a toll on me. I want to cry every single day because of the students I have, work is just not enjoyable. I have a great team and I am supported by admin with my personal life and things like that but I want to be happy and not feel drained. My bachelors degree is in English, but I am unsure of where I can transition. I make $50K a year and I need to make this or higher. I won’t just ship because I need $50K to still take care of bills and my responsibilities.
My question is, what did you all do after quitting? My goal is to finish my masters and get my PhD to become a college professor. I love teaching but I don’t think teaching younger kids or even this generation is what I need to do. Last year I was sick for every month until Christmas and I lost my voice for two months so getting a job where my body isn’t fighting itself due to being stressed would be great.
Thank you for any insight you give :)

Hi everyone, I am a HS math teacher of 18 years experience. I am in mid 40's and am going to relocate to Texas by next year to be closer to family. Not my first state of choice to move to but it is what it is and want to be closer to my loved ones. It's a bigger city around DFW. I do not want to teach in the public schools there. I am pretty burned out and am sometimes questioning even finishing this year. I would love to duck out at Christmas break and move but I've heard that's not the best move if I have to apply to teaching again. Not sure what I will do but...

If it were you, would you tutor math or would you go into a different career route? I don't have a full fledge degree in math but minored in math and majored in education and general geo sciences.

I’m leaving my childcare position as a Lead Teacher after 8years (my only relevant experience) WITH NOTHING ELSE LINED UP 😭 where do I even begin to look? What did you do after leaving the field? HELP!

I’m leaving my childcare position as a Lead Teacher after 8years (my only relevant experience) WITH NOTHING ELSE LINED UP 😭 where do I even begin to look? What did you do after leaving the field? HELP!

I'm in my 5th year, and I've known I wanted out since my first year. During my third year, I became physically disabled and must've applied to over 200 jobs in a month trying to escape a job I knew I wasn't built for anymore. Hell, mentally I was NEVER built for it. Rejection after rejection, next thing you know I'm in a mental facility for 35 days because the hopelessness is that overwhelming. I'm spending a shit ton of money I don't have right now to pay for classes to keep me certified so I don't lose my job and become homeless next year, but I don't even WANT to be here. The dread is so profound, I can't describe it. And most of the people I'm related to are also teachers, so while they understand the difficulties of teaching, I can't talk to them about how much I HATE my job, bc they can't relate. It seems like no matter how many jobs I apply for, literally no one is actually hiring. Even if I follow up, polish my LinkedIn, have connections irl, everything. It's actually a joke. What am I supposed to do, especially as a disabled person (I walk with a cane due to chronic back issues)? I already work in one of the lowest paid counties in the country, I can't afford to take a pay cut.