Teaching is a Dead-End Job: Part II
by teachbad
If you are committed to leaving teaching, there are ways out. There are other leaky boats waiting for you at the dock. You can try to get a different job, in or out of education. It stands to reason that something within the broader field of education would offer better prospects for the aspiring ex-teacher.
But being a teacher doesn’t automatically make you an attractive candidate for any ol’ job in education. It is important to remember that remaining in education as a principal, curriculum writer, trainer, non-profit program manager, or district bureaucrat is a change of career. It is not a lateral move and it won’t necessarily be a move up. You will be exiting one career in order to enter another that happens to be in the same field. Working at a gas station does not qualify you to work on an oil rig. You may well have to go back to school, take a pay cut or start at a lower level than you had expected. And that’s if you are lucky. After all, how many ESL Program Coordinators and Assistant Directors for Social Studies Curriculum Development do you think they need
