Comments on: If You’re Pondering A Teaching Career

By: renadom

renadom — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 01:04:16 +0000

I sympathise with you. vigera overdose Oh, good joke) Why don't fish play tennis? They might get caught in the net.

By: Lynn M

Lynn M — Tue, 19 May 2009 17:04:23 +0000

Regarding the above comment, yes, teachers have also suffered during the recession, but as every action has a reaction — job loss and the recession has caused many people to enroll in courses and programs (often in community college where the cost of education is cheaper) thereby creating jobs in higher education. People want to add skills to their resume and want to up their education in an effort to compete in the job market or hold onto their current jobs. In other cases people are considering continuing their education in graduate school rather than heading to the workforce after graduation in the hopes of waiting out the recession. Whether this is a good move or not has been debated, but nevertheless, it does mean jobs for educators.

By: Middle East Teaching Careers

Middle East Teaching Careers — Wed, 13 May 2009 10:02:17 +0000

“about how hard teaching really is and the fact that, just because there’s a shortage coming down the pike, it doesn’t mean landing and keeping a teaching job is going to be a piece of cake.”

Sadly this is true. Before teaching is one of the most stable jobs by far. No matter how the economy was, education will always have students to reach out.

But I guess that assumption has fallen short with the recent recession times which has taken its toll on teachers globally.

By: alexa

alexa — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:02:26 +0000

Lynn,

You make excellent points, and I agree with all of them (especially the bit about doing what makes you happy because it’s what you’ll do best). It seems so logical and simple, and yet humans manage to twist themselves into knots anyway.

By: Lynn M

Lynn M — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:27:21 +0000

I don’t think anyone should go into a career solely because it is recession-proof or it is in demand or because someone else had the job and it served them well or even because it has a high salary. This goes for teaching or any other job. As for “teaching is hard” — life is hard, other jobs are hard too — it is hard to know how easy or hard a job is unless you’ve done it yourself. Often the things that are the hardest to do are the most rewarding if you have a desire to do it. The hardest thing to do is something you don’t enjoy. I’ve been a teacher and worked in the corporate world and what I’ve seen is that one side always sees it as greener on the other side. The truth is, there are positive aspects and negative aspects to both and most of the people I have met are pretty clueless about “the other side.” I say do what makes you happy, it is what you’ll do best.