I'm a teacher and I need to make more money

[Anonymous]

I have a masters in education, work PT right now due to young kids, but am looking for more FT jobs. Probably won't make that much more, but I would take anything. What else can I do to make more money with my experience? I have tutored on the side, but that's usually just a couple hundred extra a month. I would like to double/triple my salary (of $25K with benefits). Any thoughts?

[Anonymous]

Find a new job. In this area teachers start out at twice your salary.

[Anonymous]

I mean if you just want to temp - you could rake it in over the next 15-18 months being a private governess / nanny to rich families.

I’d contact elite nanny agencies in Boston, NYC, and DC and let them know you’re looking to be a private educational consultant and nanny to families with kids who need summer instruction even leading into fall.

You would require separate housing paid for by the family for you plus your two kids. But you must be willing to travel wherever they go. I think you could request a salary of $75,000 - $120,000 easily if you were able to work as the family’s nanny as well as educational lead.

[Anonymous]

Wow. We pay our nanny more than that.
But in realists. Take 4-6 months and learn to program. We just hired a former teacher (grander he has a math degree first and then decided to teach). And he taught himself programming. We tested him. Smart kid. Will be making triple what you're making and about the same as all our new grads hires.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I mean if you just want to temp - you could rake it in over the next 15-18 months being a private governess / nanny to rich families.

I’d contact elite nanny agencies in Boston, NYC, and DC and let them know you’re looking to be a private educational consultant and nanny to families with kids who need summer instruction even leading into fall.

You would require separate housing paid for by the family for you plus your two kids. But you must be willing to travel wherever they go. I think you could request a salary of $75,000 - $120,000 easily if you were able to work as the family’s nanny as well as educational lead.

Good luck finding a job like this where you expect housing for you and your whole family. These families want someone single who can work a lot. They don’t want someone with their own kids.

[Anonymous]

Defense has a fair number of govt and contractor positions in the DC metro that execute/manage military or civilian professional education and training. Check USAJobs and clearancejobs.

Similarly, I knew a contractor who had been a high school history teacher and left for a defense contractor. They had him doing what I think of as organizational management consulting. Not sure what it's called for real, but whenever a customer wanted to change they way it did business and needed organizational plans, charters, and documentations, they brought him in.

It probably would be easier to break into the business with one of the contractor shops than going directly into the government. One of them could easily sponsor you for an interim Secret while DoD did the background investigation.

Pay should easily be triple or more plus benefits.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I mean if you just want to temp - you could rake it in over the next 15-18 months being a private governess / nanny to rich families.

I’d contact elite nanny agencies in Boston, NYC, and DC and let them know you’re looking to be a private educational consultant and nanny to families with kids who need summer instruction even leading into fall.

You would require separate housing paid for by the family for you plus your two kids. But you must be willing to travel wherever they go. I think you could request a salary of $75,000 - $120,000 easily if you were able to work as the family’s nanny as well as educational lead.

Good luck finding a job like this where you expect housing for you and your whole family. These families want someone single who can work a lot. They don’t want someone with their own kids.

In a normal situation I would agree. But the market for private nannies just went 100x higher with literally every school and summer camp facility closed on the entire Eastern seaboard.

People have nowhere to send their kids and on top of that -- the kids are backtracking educationally because they just spent the last 3 months doing jack-all.

A parent worried about the intellectual abilities of their kids (which is most rich parents) will throw money at the problem and who better than to hire than a teacher with a Masters in Education who can get everyone from your toddler to you middle school student struggling with algebra up to speed over the summer?

If this goes into the fall, nannies/governesses won't be a luxury anymore. They'll be mandatory unless you want your kids to loose what little cognitive abilities they had in the first place.

So OP will easily be able to find a placement. I say target rich (not UMC) but RICH - I have my own Hamptons mansion with waterfront access rich - households because they'll have a guest house that OP can live in and/or will pay for a small cottage and probably would accept the OP co-tutoring their kids with her kids as long as she comes from a good quality background.

[Anonymous]

Look for corporate training jobs. Sometimes they are called learning and development jobs.

A lot of companies have a specific training learning department, and that’s where you’ll make way more money than in schools. At first I would think it would be more like your current salary, but then it will grow to over 100 K

[Anonymous]

There are also companies with contracts with the federal government for learning management systems. I'm sure they need people with a teaching background for those projects.

[Anonymous]

Example Learning or Training Coordinator job on LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/1842118147

Says estimated pay range is between 50-70k.

Make a resume Like you would for any job you would be qualified for the private sector. You have a masters too. Highlight your technical skills like Microsoft office and other writing strength you have.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Defense has a fair number of govt and contractor positions in the DC metro that execute/manage military or civilian professional education and training. Check USAJobs and clearancejobs.

Similarly, I knew a contractor who had been a high school history teacher and left for a defense contractor. They had him doing what I think of as organizational management consulting. Not sure what it's called for real, but whenever a customer wanted to change they way it did business and needed organizational plans, charters, and documentations, they brought him in.

It probably would be easier to break into the business with one of the contractor shops than going directly into the government. One of them could easily sponsor you for an interim Secret while DoD did the background investigation.

Pay should easily be triple or more plus benefits.

This is exactly what I did as a teacher and I tripled my salary. But to get there, I got a top-tier master's in international affairs (while still working full-time as a teacher) and a security clearance; then did a Fortune 500 corporate internship, a part-time DoD contract, and a full-time NGO job before getting a well-paid DoD contracting gig running adult education and training programs. That first full-time job paid over $100k, but was incredibly long hours with an abusive, screaming, alcoholic, unethical boss. After a couple years of sticking it out I got a better paid/more prestigious job with an awesome DoD employer. Now I do organizational change management. My background as a teacher has been very useful.

Took 4 years to land that first full-time DoD position. Definitely can be done, and probably faster/better than I did it.

[Anonymous]

Can you tutor overseas kids online in English? VIP Kid and some other start at over 20 an hour.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have a masters in education, work PT right now due to young kids, but am looking for more FT jobs. Probably won't make that much more, but I would take anything. What else can I do to make more money with my experience? I have tutored on the side, but that's usually just a couple hundred extra a month. I would like to double/triple my salary (of $25K with benefits). Any thoughts?

You need to get in sales...sell Zoom, WebEx, Blackboard....something schools need to buy - that will bring in some $$$

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Example Learning or Training Coordinator job on LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/1842118147

Says estimated pay range is between 50-70k.

Make a resume Like you would for any job you would be qualified for the private sector. You have a masters too. Highlight your technical skills like Microsoft office and other writing strength you have.

Wow I thank you for the example and thank you all so much. I didn’t realize there were so many top rooms. Now to polish up my resume and start searching.

[Anonymous]

Tutoring You can get $70-$100 per hour in NoVa.