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Leaving teaching

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  • 03-08-2020 7:27pm
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    Purplewaters
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    The current back to school reopening plan is giving me the push to change careers. I have years of teaching experience and a teaching degree. I have always been interested in trying out a different kinds of jobs and the current situation is making me think I should do it sooner rather than later. Are there any jobs that would value teaching experience and qualifications or do I need to qualify in something else? A lot of decent jobs advertised require very specific experience. Feeling a bit lost with it all and also a bit panicked as I don't want to spend a year in fear of picking up this virus working in an unsafe situation. Happy to learn new skills etc but have seen thar a lot of friends jobs are not thar closely linked to what they did in college so wonderkng if any work well with teaching experience.


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    ironclaw
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    The next 2 to 3 years will see an explosion in online learning and teaching. Most companies that provide online learning platforms are slammed, I know one that hired over 30 people to simply provide support to new and existing users. Their developers are booked out for a year to 18 months.

    If you wanted to stick to what you knew, I would wager a good business will exist in online tutoring (50EUR/hour to sit at home on Zoom isn't bad money) and online teaching/exam prep (There won't be an in person mega leaving cert course for a year to two in my eyes)

    There are bound to be a few teachers in your boat so if you rounded up 10 and had a nice little online business going, I think you could make a good go of it.


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    Purplewaters
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    ironclaw wrote: »
    The next 2 to 3 years will see an explosion in online learning and teaching. Most companies that provide online learning platforms are slammed, I know one that hired over 30 people to simply provide support to new and existing users. Their developers are booked out for a year to 18 months.

    If you wanted to stick to what you knew, I would wager a good business will exist in online tutoring (50EUR/hour to sit at home on Zoom isn't bad money) and online teaching/exam prep (There won't be an in person mega leaving cert course for a year to two in my eyes)

    There are bound to be a few teachers in your boat so if you rounded up 10 and had a nice little online business going, I think you could make a good go of it.

    Thanks, I'm actually primary but I do think that's a great idea. Wouldn't need to only be Ireland either. Thanks for that.


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