so I am also toying with changing careers...
I dont want to leave teaching, but I am not getting any calls except for to be a lunch/recess monitor for 2 hrs a day @ $8/hr. It would actually cost me $$ to work. It would cost more $$ for the gas to drive back & forth to the school than I would bring home, plus it's not a real teaching position - it's watching kids at lunch & on the playground. I make more money staying home & collecting unemployment...sad to say.
Eventually though I know that unemployment will run out & I need to come up w/ a plan...and soon. I have been toying with the idea of becoming a wedding/event planner. There arent many up in my area, and I know it's something that I'd at least enjoy doing & that there is a demand for it if you market yourself correctly. Plus the fact it's the type of job where I could work as much or as little as I want/need to & when it comes time for DH & I to have a baby, I can pcik & choose when I want to work & take time off instead of having to ask for it from some higher up.
I am really depressed though b/c I know in order to do this I will have to start selling off all my teaching stuff. It's hard b/c I have like 50 boxes worth of books, materials, supplies - all accrued from over 8 years of teaching. There are a few boxes of children's books that I wont sell b/c I want to save that for our own child someday. I just really hate giving up my dream of being in the classroom, but I also have to be realisitic - there are so few teaching jobs out there, and the cold hard fact is - is that there are also other teachers w/ more years exp than me out there looking too. I know they say 2012 is supposed to start the influx of the next level of retirements, but I cant wait another 2 years being jobless and not having some money for us & our expenses as well as having some spending money for myself.
So I'm at a crossroads, and afraid to stay on one path, or venture onto another.
Thanks for letting me vent.![]()
Eventually though I know that unemployment will run out & I need to come up w/ a plan...and soon. I have been toying with the idea of becoming a wedding/event planner. There arent many up in my area, and I know it's something that I'd at least enjoy doing & that there is a demand for it if you market yourself correctly. Plus the fact it's the type of job where I could work as much or as little as I want/need to & when it comes time for DH & I to have a baby, I can pcik & choose when I want to work & take time off instead of having to ask for it from some higher up.
I am really depressed though b/c I know in order to do this I will have to start selling off all my teaching stuff. It's hard b/c I have like 50 boxes worth of books, materials, supplies - all accrued from over 8 years of teaching. There are a few boxes of children's books that I wont sell b/c I want to save that for our own child someday. I just really hate giving up my dream of being in the classroom, but I also have to be realisitic - there are so few teaching jobs out there, and the cold hard fact is - is that there are also other teachers w/ more years exp than me out there looking too. I know they say 2012 is supposed to start the influx of the next level of retirements, but I cant wait another 2 years being jobless and not having some money for us & our expenses as well as having some spending money for myself.
So I'm at a crossroads, and afraid to stay on one path, or venture onto another.
Thanks for letting me vent.
