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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What’s your alternative option? Is it teaching someplace else? Leaving a different job? No job at all? What position? We can’t answer these questions without knowing your situation. [/quote]

I just graduated with my MA in English from GMU. The position is for an English teacher. I have never taught before. [/quote]

Do you have another plan? I have a family member who was an English major and after a few low paying jobs, decided to try teaching middle school.  She left after 3 years.  She really loved writing and literature and being around kids all day who did not was not what she had in mind.  Do you like children? Middle school is a tough age.  Give it a try if you actually want to teach and won’t get too frustrated by kids who can’t/wont read or write.  [/quote]

I have been applying to tons of other positions that would be more in the realm of what I REALLY want to, which is to design instructional materials for adult ESL or otherwise would make use of my linguistics concentrations/ TESOL Graduate Certificate/ practicum experience, and no bites. Not even an interview.[/quote]

You will need a certificate (at minimum) in instructional design to get interviews for those positions.  Colleagues who have taught for years still have to take coursework in instructional design before they are granted interviews.

With all due respect, it sounds like teaching is a fall back plan. Middle school + tough school + first year teacher is going to eat you alive if your heart isn't really in it. I would not do it--and I'm a teacher who knows how desperately we need people, but we need people who want to do it for the long haul. You will cry, often, that first year, and if you don't really really really want to be a teacher it isn't worth it.

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