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[quote=Anonymous]The job market for career changing teachers is ROUGH. Even though it seems obvious that skills would translate, it is hard to get someone to take a chance on you. Being a great teacher is basically being a PM, but without project management experience in a corporate environment, it is very hard to get hired as a PM (especially a senior PM making 175,000).

Educators are leaving the field in record numbers - which means ed consulting, ed tech, training, leadership and development and all the other jobs that would be a good fit for teachers - are saturated with applications. And FAANG have all done massive reductions in force, so places that might have been looking for great facilitators and have capacity to hire are frozen.

There is no new industry that you are going to jump into and not have a learning curve and need to put in the time. You are in a place now where you have banks of lesson plans and know the standards so well that you can just look at a kid's paper and know the mistake they are making and how to support them. But, think back to the first five years of your career. That is the level of engagement you will need to put in to make strides in a new environment and new industry.

Find a hobby. Find something else that fills your cup and stay put, at least for a little while. [/quote]

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