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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are jobs to transfer to for teachers. I was a teacher and then wrote educational material for students (at NASA). There is a lot of that going on at museums, nonprofits etc. That’s just one thing. Teachers aren’t worthless and most probably have no desire to be in “white collar” office job. [/quote]

Oh yeah lol I have worked at a bunch of nonprofits and we always get ridiculous applications from teachers. It's clear they have no idea what it's like working for clients and managing projects. Not one of them has ever had to deal with an actual budget but they always write things trying to suggest that buying classroom supplies is related. Like, that's front desk work. Great, you can answer phones.

And good luck getting any of the two dozen museum jobs.[/quote]
Your response is incoherent, but sure, teachers aren’t qualified to do anything “lol”. Apparently no one in the non profit world can even string together a sentence, so teachers should be okay out there. [/quote]

is your problem that the person said "lol"? because this is all pretty coherent to me. it sounds like teachers don't know what they're doing and are writing cover letters to nonprofits that demonstrate ignorance of the job to be performed.[/quote]

NP here but I’ve known many teachers who’ve transition to other successful careers-  working in R and D at Booz Allen, working in Ed consulting with non profits, one works at McKinsey, etc.   And none of them work at museums.[/quote]

In my experience, those were always people who went back to school for a different degree, changed careers and worked themselves up from the bottom, or had alternative experience to rely on. Very, very few who had only done K-12 education were qualified for anything else, especially something like research at Booz Allen. [/quote]

PP but all of the people I listed went straight from the classroom to those jobs.  I think people forget that some teachers are experts in things like physics and chemistry.  So it’s really not difficult for them to transition.[/quote]

Do you know what their background was? What I described wouldn't preclude that.[/quote]

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