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Message: [QUOTE="Hey Adrien!, post: 3674157, member: 5787"] As a teacher, working from home has been a major harbinger for me possibly moving on from 11 years in private school to possibly starting in public school. At my private school, in addition to teaching and chairing the math department, I coach, am an advisor, do some administrative work and wear "many different hats". All fulfilling stuff, but teaching at home gave me an insight to what it's like if I only taught math. None of my other duties were needed if kids weren't around. Teaching, itself, is not stressful and most of my work stress has been around financial scares within our school. The long-term projection of independent schools in isn't good and plenty of good teachers from my school and others around lost their job solely for budgeting cuts. Each year I stay, the higher proportion of co-workers are either single men/women or women with rich husbands who aren't dependent on a pay check. Nothing wrong with that, but I don't fit that profile and the job isn't sustainable long-term for my lifestyle. On that note, I was fortunate to learn that Connecticut changed their prerequisites to teach middle school math in its public schools. All I had to do was pass the Praxis II and show that I've been teaching for 3+ years. My certification finalized a few weeks ago and I'll look for public school jobs next spring. I live in Norwalk, so I'm surrounded by good paying districts and on average, I'll make somewhere between 15k-25k more right away, 30k+ more in a few years, better short- and long-term benefits, better job security (public schools ain't going anywhere), plus a potential for pension. No kids yet, but if we end up having kids, we would need to be a two-income family so that pay increase would make a potential for affording day care much less scary and I wouldn't be depending on affording day-to-day due to tutoring gigs. If we end up without kids, more money to enjoy ourselves. Unfortunately, it's a time where millions of people have lost jobs simply because of circumstances out of their control and I feel terrible for anyone on here who has dealt with that. One important lesson I've learned from these six months is we live in constant impermanence and successful people need to be flexible as the times change. [/QUOTE]

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