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[quote=Anonymous]I've had a number of friends quit teaching and go into other professions.  Teachers work in related education fields such as: teaching at the college level, online teaching, opening a daycare center, nannying, running a park district, director of a forest preserve nature center, writing curriculum, becoming therapists, insurance agents, business, IT and a host of other jobs.  We've been told for so long that "there's nothing else we can do" that we believe it.  It isn't true.  Teachers solve problems, analyze data, provide customer service, juggle a dozen or more things at once, organize materials, and much, much more.

But, it is hard to leave, even when you might be ready to leave when you still have love for the kids.  It is hard to leave after about 10 years because of the pension.  It is hard to walk away from 15 weeks of vacation.  It's hard to walk away when you've spent 10-20K in teaching materials and books.  Some of us had student loan forgiveness if we work in a high needs field for 5-10 years.  Some of us are in higher paying districts where we'd take a big pay cut doing something else.  And some of it is inertia.  But there's nothing particularly impossible about many other types of jobs that an average teacher couldn't do.  It might take a leap of faith, but it isn't impossible.  [/quote]

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