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Good high-seniority teachers can walk out of their job and straight into the white-collar office job world for more money and usually less bullshit. Probably ev

Good high-seniority teachers can walk out of their job and straight into the white-collar office job world for more money and usually less bullshit. Probably even a remote role for extra improvement to QOL. It’s far from just new teachers leaving (that’s always been a thing).

pipes 2y ago
Two siblings who are teachers, and a parent who was a teacher. What sort of white collar work can they get? Only example I can think of is a teacher who left after two years and got a job as a Business analyst at my place of employment (they were in their 20s). I've honestly never seen any other teacher do this. Teachers are very underpaid in the UK, but they do have great job security and pension security. Not to mention amazing holidays. Neither of my siblings would give this up.
- vundercind 2y ago
  A lot of it’s about transferable skills, which good teachers tend to accumulate a lot of. For one thing, they have to have their shit together better than your average office worker, just to get by in their profession. They tend to have excellent organizational and planning skills, and are very good at packaging and presenting information. That’s a very-partial list, and doesn’t even cover topic-specific skills they may pick up. They’re often very good and quick at picking up things like project management, or any other communication- and organization-heavy role. Marketing. Lots of things they can get up to speed on really fast. It doesn’t hurt that in a lot of places (in the US) the pay’s so poor that they don’t exactly need to move directly into even a mid-tier office job to make more than they do with 10+ years teaching—a tad above entry-level can match or beat what they’re making, and it goes up fast from there (something they tend to find thrilling and surprising—hey, look, you get actual rewards and advancement in pay for doing great at your job, not just a a monochrome certificate someone ran off on the school laser printer!)

pipes 2y ago

Two siblings who are teachers, and a parent who was a teacher. What sort of white collar work can they get? Only example I can think of is a teacher who left after two years and got a job as a Business analyst at my place of employment (they were in their 20s). I've honestly never seen any other teacher do this. Teachers are very underpaid in the UK, but they do have great job security and pension security. Not to mention amazing holidays. Neither of my siblings would give this up.

vundercind 2y ago
A lot of it’s about transferable skills, which good teachers tend to accumulate a lot of. For one thing, they have to have their shit together better than your average office worker, just to get by in their profession. They tend to have excellent organizational and planning skills, and are very good at packaging and presenting information. That’s a very-partial list, and doesn’t even cover topic-specific skills they may pick up. They’re often very good and quick at picking up things like project management, or any other communication- and organization-heavy role. Marketing. Lots of things they can get up to speed on really fast. It doesn’t hurt that in a lot of places (in the US) the pay’s so poor that they don’t exactly need to move directly into even a mid-tier office job to make more than they do with 10+ years teaching—a tad above entry-level can match or beat what they’re making, and it goes up fast from there (something they tend to find thrilling and surprising—hey, look, you get actual rewards and advancement in pay for doing great at your job, not just a a monochrome certificate someone ran off on the school laser printer!)