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If I may ask: Why former?

• _benj 4y ago
  Not op but maybe compensation and everything else outside of teaching? I used to teach computers/math to 8th graders and while teaching is beautiful school politics, terrible benefits, dealing with patents, among others things made the job of teaching incredibly difficult and draining
• jms429 4y ago
  Burn out. Teaching is a job that is never "done", and expectations from management and parents are constantly set higher and higher. Especially around IT. I lost count of the number of times I asked for help from management and got told "but you are so good at computers". Tried the startup thing, my product crashed and burned, work for a charity now.