Work As A Teacher (for Mature Students)

[Deleted member 28812]

My husband lost his job but will be on paid vaccatiom for one and a half months. There is paid vacation where I am from.
Currently they are searching teachers for adult education (vocational school) in my country and they are searching career changers. So he would basically teach as what he worked before. We are thinking about this possibility.

Experiences?

It's actually a good thing he lost his job because he was genuinely unhappy with it and seems to be relieved. He was so unhappy with the athmosphere at his job.
His only regret is that he did not start to look into other possibilities sooner.

 

[Sweetpea76]

I have a professional cosmetology license, and I taught for a little while in a cos school. I made more money in the salon though, so I didn't teach for long.

 

[Deleted member 28812]

What was it like? Did you like it?

 

[KwanYingirl]

I changed careers due to a chemical exposure in my previous field. I miss the benefits but am much happier being my own boss. You can learn new things all the days of your life. It took a couple of starts and stops to find a career I like. Good luck it can be really rewarding to get a fresh start.

 

[garden]

I taught grown ups how to cut hair. It was really fun. I was teaching our assistants, so most of them were really young and full of excitement and curiosity. I enjoyed watching them evolve and develop, it was rewarding. They really appreciate you for your efforts. They start off shy and then start blooming all over the place.

 

[Sandstone]

Why did he lose his job? Was it just lay-offs, or was it related to his PTSD?

 

[Friday]

I've taught kids (generally 6-12, but some younger and some older. Usually science & history, some multi-disciplinary unit study) & college/university kids (as a TA -usually a grad student position- in health sciences, but I subbed over in the psych & art departments from time to time. LOL. I get around. But I had more than one major. And it was a fairly small college/uni. You get to know people).

Both are fun in different ways.

There's a helluva lot of work involved with both kids and adults. The first time I would teach a quarter (3 month period) I would generally spend 3-4 hours of prep time (research, gathering materials, designing lessons) for every 1 hour of instruction time. Lotta stress, but for me it was good stress. As I got comfortable and familiar with teaching that ratio shrunk to about 1:1

I was fairly asymptomatic during that time period / had been for several years before I started. In no small part, looking back, because my life was revolved around managing my stress. Including when I was teaching. For me the 3 month stint, break, 3 month stint, break... Plus only teaching certain days, with breaks between classes? Is exactly the kind of schedule I work 2nd best in. Get to school (university) teach for 2 hours, take a 2 hour break, teach for 2 more hours... & then I based teaching kids on the same kind of schedule the universities use. I didn't teach "little" kids in govt. school, but private.

(First best is 24hr type jobs, where I live my work for a period of time, then come home and live my personal life). I cannot work 8am-6pm M-F. I start going spare. I need the intensity followed by significant breaks. On both a daily and quarterly basis.

 

[Sweetpea76]

@Lemontree , I enjoyed it, and it helped my hone my skills as well. Breaking everything down to the basic steps and repeating often goes a long way, even for people who have had that skill for awhile.

 

[Deleted member 28812]

So far I noticed that being out of work has a beneficial influence on my guy. He is more reaxed.

 

[Eleanor]

My H did this transition and loves loves loves teaching. He turns out to be super good at it and gets tremendous satisfaction out of his students getting really good jobs. The outfit he works for is... a lot less than one might hope, but his program is structured in a way that he is essentially in charge of his students from start to finish, and he has good relationships with the placement staff. It can be really satisfying work. His particular program is one which really IS worth the money students pay (he does industrial technology) as opposed to some of the others like criminal justice and office type work.... If there is a market for grads in what he is teaching...