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[quote=Anonymous]I got a special ed para job at 50. Great benefits, retirement, health insurance, holidays, about 12 weeks off per year including summer and winter and spring breaks. I had a degree so started at step 8 of the pay scale. I retired 16 years later at the top of pay scale, just under $50K. Not a lot of money but it worked for me and I'm living on my pension and SS. To be successful as a para you have to be good at it, but you will find that out pretty quickly. I could have easily transitioned into teaching but decided against it, choosing quality of life instead. I loved the job, didn't always love the hassles inherent in working in a school division, miss the kids but not the physical and mental exhaustion at the end of the day which got harder to handle as I got older. As others have said, it would probably be easy right now to use a para job as a stepping stone to a teaching job and make a bit more money.[/quote]
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