I save my money and buy homes to rent. I now have 6 rental townhouses in 3 cities. I like teaching but if I stopped, I could. I have multiple streams of income so when I retire, I will be set for life. Hopefully.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes. Realtors, instructional design, instructional technology, Edward Jones financial advisor, interior decorator; owner of a lawn service company. The teachers who became Realtors, a decorator and owned the lawn company all did these jobs during the summer to make extra money anyhow, so at some point it stopped being financially worth it to teach.

Some of the older teachers I knew who couldn't take it anymore became library assistants: they took pay cuts, but didn't have to be in the classroom any more and could still officially be in the state retirement system.

How did they afford the pay cut? DW and I are both teachers and we wouldn’t be able to afford one of us becoming an assistant.

They basically cut expenses down to the bone, and only one person became an assistant. This was not in the DC area, and both their kids were already out of the house.

I’m currently looking for other jobs in VRS. I can’t do this job for many more years and not sure I can go back next year. There are a lot of other jobs in VRS that can give me years that are not teaching. DH is not a teacher. That’s how we can afford it. At some point the stress isn’t worth the salary.

Amen to that. The stress and the health risks are just not worth it.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes. Realtors, instructional design, instructional technology, Edward Jones financial advisor, interior decorator; owner of a lawn service company. The teachers who became Realtors, a decorator and owned the lawn company all did these jobs during the summer to make extra money anyhow, so at some point it stopped being financially worth it to teach.

Some of the older teachers I knew who couldn't take it anymore became library assistants: they took pay cuts, but didn't have to be in the classroom any more and could still officially be in the state retirement system.

How did they afford the pay cut? DW and I are both teachers and we wouldn’t be able to afford one of us becoming an assistant.

They basically cut expenses down to the bone, and only one person became an assistant. This was not in the DC area, and both their kids were already out of the house.

I’m currently looking for other jobs in VRS. I can’t do this job for many more years and not sure I can go back next year. There are a lot of other jobs in VRS that can give me years that are not teaching. DH is not a teacher. That’s how we can afford it. At some point the stress isn’t worth the salary.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes. Realtors, instructional design, instructional technology, Edward Jones financial advisor, interior decorator; owner of a lawn service company. The teachers who became Realtors, a decorator and owned the lawn company all did these jobs during the summer to make extra money anyhow, so at some point it stopped being financially worth it to teach.

Some of the older teachers I knew who couldn't take it anymore became library assistants: they took pay cuts, but didn't have to be in the classroom any more and could still officially be in the state retirement system.

How did they afford the pay cut? DW and I are both teachers and we wouldn’t be able to afford one of us becoming an assistant.

They basically cut expenses down to the bone, and only one person became an assistant. This was not in the DC area, and both their kids were already out of the house.

Anonymous wrote:I know 2 math teachers who took the actuarial exams and passed. While the math part is routinized, they do the analysis. I think one works for an insurance company and I am not sure about what industry the other one works in.

I also know if a math teacher who did this last year. She’s making more at her entry level job than she did teaching last year and says it’s a lot less stressful.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes. Realtors, instructional design, instructional technology, Edward Jones financial advisor, interior decorator; owner of a lawn service company. The teachers who became Realtors, a decorator and owned the lawn company all did these jobs during the summer to make extra money anyhow, so at some point it stopped being financially worth it to teach.

Some of the older teachers I knew who couldn't take it anymore became library assistants: they took pay cuts, but didn't have to be in the classroom any more and could still officially be in the state retirement system.

How did they afford the pay cut? DW and I are both teachers and we wouldn’t be able to afford one of us becoming an assistant.

It helps when your spouse has a nice salary. Mine makes over 3x my teaching salary.

I know 2 math teachers who took the actuarial exams and passed. While the math part is routinized, they do the analysis. I think one works for an insurance company and I am not sure about what industry the other one works in.

Anonymous wrote:Yes. Realtors, instructional design, instructional technology, Edward Jones financial advisor, interior decorator; owner of a lawn service company. The teachers who became Realtors, a decorator and owned the lawn company all did these jobs during the summer to make extra money anyhow, so at some point it stopped being financially worth it to teach.

Some of the older teachers I knew who couldn't take it anymore became library assistants: they took pay cuts, but didn't have to be in the classroom any more and could still officially be in the state retirement system.

How did they afford the pay cut? DW and I are both teachers and we wouldn’t be able to afford one of us becoming an assistant.

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Anonymous wrote:Real estate. I know 2 teachers who crushed it in real estate.

Anyone crushing it in real estate probably wasn’t cut out for teaching in the first place.

?? Weird post. A lot of the same skills.

What skills are those?

Have you no imagination?

DP.

What teachers bring to the table: outstanding people skills, highly organized, able to speak in a cogent yet comprehensible manner about a wide variety of complex and mundane topics, visual, outstanding technology skills (especially after last year this may be much more a teacher skill than perhaps a realtor skill), ability to flex and pivot, ability to regroup, good spin, strong ability to manage grumpy and unlikable people and get them to do what you need them to do, willing to work with huge jerks and let the hostility roll off their backs, great networkers, detail oriented, follow-the-rules kind of people, strong ethics, etc.

I mean, what more do you want?

- Signed, A Principal

Oh, and one friend started out as a hair stylist, earned her degree and became a teacher, and then realized hair styling paid more and was more flexible, so went back to being a hair stylist.

Yes. Realtors, instructional design, instructional technology, Edward Jones financial advisor, interior decorator; owner of a lawn service company. The teachers who became Realtors, a decorator and owned the lawn company all did these jobs during the summer to make extra money anyhow, so at some point it stopped being financially worth it to teach.

Some of the older teachers I knew who couldn't take it anymore became library assistants: they took pay cuts, but didn't have to be in the classroom any more and could still officially be in the state retirement system.

Of course, OP. You’re an idiot. Why do DCUMers think they have special work skills. 90% of you sit on the computer all day.

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Anonymous wrote:Real estate. I know 2 teachers who crushed it in real estate.

Anyone crushing it in real estate probably wasn’t cut out for teaching in the first place.

?? Weird post. A lot of the same skills.

What skills are those?

Have you no imagination?

A teacher at my school went to work for a textbook publishing company. He mostly works selling to private schools and does some digital media for public schools.

I think it is easier to transition out for someone with less than 10 years or so. The teachers I see doing this don’t have many years teaching,