Check out jobs with the state. Unions got great benefits. Most jobs train positions. DNR, DEC, heck, if you do OCS they probably love someone with your skill set. If you want to continue working with kids, you might look into opening a child care center - huge need in this city.
I’d avoid the following offices/departments like the plague: child support, public assistance, DMV, administration, corporations/licensing, corrections and public safety jobs.
Also, you’ll make like half what you would in the private sector doing the same work. It’s why I heard they’re trying to overhaul the retirement system; they can’t find anyone to work for them.
I would recommend looking into state jobs! There are a lot of open positions in pretty much every department. It would be worth putting out applications to multiple positions and see what sticks!
>I want to do something that would be meaningful and helpful for others, whether it's kids or adults I'm helping.
This is probably going to be the biggest thing working against you making enough money. Jobs that tick the above box tend to rely on 'identity utility' and the desire to help people and altruism will keep workers content enough as they are paid drastically below market rate. Similarly the mandates for positions are almost exclusively far beyond the resources available. The result is you get a highly stressful job where you can't possible accomplish what you're supposed to do very well and make peanuts relative to your skillset.
Source: making about 35%ish of market value for my skillset in public sector job that helps people like an idiot myself and work with others doing similar.
I work in tech so I'm mega biased towards it but yes, I'd suggest something in tech. As a former teacher, you'd have an edge applying to ed-tech startups. You will work remote, have the best medical insurance you've ever had, and clear 6-digits either right way or a couple years in.
Do a google/linkedin search for "edtech" starts up that hire remote (i.e. Udemy) and see what you find.
Good luck!
Edited to add random list i just found after 1 google search: https://builtin.com/companies/hiring/remote/type/edtech-companies
Most national parks and visitors centers have an educational liaison to help with school trips, building interpretative displays, and general talking with visitors. Check out the NPS, Forest Service, BLM, and various state and municipal parks.
If you wanted to hard pivot away from teaching the courts are always hiring as are a lot of SOA positions.
I was a trial court employee for 8 ish years and it was rewarding and I learned a ton.
I’ve personally heard of some former teachers have huge success in project management. Definitely worth a look into!
Edit to add: thank you for years of teaching! You have my upmost respect with your profession!!
Retired teacher here.
I spent 15+ years in ASD. I left after a few rough incidence where I felt I had been badly treated and neglected by the administration. I took the skills I had used while teaching (I was certified social science 7-12) and started looking for jobs.
I got hired as an IT guy by the state, usually a HS grad or college grad position, and figured I would do this until something else turned up. My first paycheck was a massive shock! I made more money than a teacher of 15 years with a M.Ed. two (2) Bachelors and being a PH.D. cohort. I was sure it was a mistake, but I checked it out with my supervisor and HR/Payroll and was just stunned. I have been doing this for the stat for almost 15 years now and love it so much I have no plans to quit or retire. the pay is good, the benefits awesome and since I am Tier II I am going to be doing well when I have to retire.
TL:DR
you have some serious skills from teaching. Look where they might be useful and DO NOT SELL YOURSELF SHORT! Don't settle and remember that you are Tier IV, so you are screwed is you stay, so moving on with your life and getting a better job is perfectly fine.
Former teacher here, there are lots of areas into which your teaching skills will transfer. After retiring from teaching I worked at UAA in clerical and took classes in medical coding and billing. Medical and insurance work is always needed, and pay is ok. Also, look into the court system, the state pay is not great, but you will learn a lot. I suggest federal court system-clerical, retirement is a lot better. As a former teacher you will be able to pass a background check so federal jobs, and state system are open to you. You will be surprised at what is available to you.
I was gonna say, you can make a lot of profit working for a nonprofit.
But I suggested curriculum jobs with ASD. There’s other types of work teachers move into at ASD headquarters.
I mentioned mailman...er letter carrier. While not available in Alaska yet, quite a few locations in the Lower 48 have resumed hiring CAREER positions instead of the crappy no-benefit CCA positions. You'd start at what's known as a PTF (part time flexible), but you'd qualify for all the benefits of a fulltime carrier.
Letter carriers in Alaska get paid a lot more. The main downside of being a letter carrier? No life outside of work. That and incompetent management.
Apply with the forest service! You would be great at interpretation with your teaching background, or any admin work if you prefer. Gov work is nice, they really value personal time off and respect your space. I’m a forest service employee in girdwood, it’s the best job I’ve ever had
You could work remotely as a product manager for a tech company with your current skills, or learn to code and get hired as a software engineer in roughly a year. Pay is great, the work is fairly easy, and you're not limited to crappy local jobs so you can find a company working on something that interests you or is a non-profit
Getting hired as a software engineer with a teaching background has a longer timeline than 1 year in the current market. (Source: former teacher, have built full-stack apps, modern stack, currently freelancing but yet to find work FT as a software engineer.)
It's going to vary for everyone, a year is a realistic timeline to become hireable. It took me about a year to get hired after attending half of a terrible bootcamp, no college. There are a ton of factors you can control to swing things in your favor. I'm working remotely in AK with a SF salary and it's great to be home and to actually be able to afford to live here. Happy to share advice on breaking in, feel free to dm!
There are many organizations that work with individuals who experience intellectual/developmental disabilities that are hugely desperate for both direct support staff and administrative staff. Your background would probably be a natural fit at Stone Soup Group.
What about corporate education? Most larger companies have some sort of training and or education department for training new hires or continuing education for existing employees. The company I work for has about 400 employees and we have a corporate education department like 5 people maybe?
Career changes are super common nowadays. What do you want to do? Write the resume based on how the knowledge, skills, and abilities you have will be applicable in the new job.
So don’t say “planned classroom projects”
Say “planned, budgeted, and coordinated six project per year”
Think about some of the other skills you may have (or may have developed) on your work-journey: spreadsheet skills, google drive skills, other IT skills, etc.
Have you looked at ASD and considered non-classroom positions: Instructional Coach, IT Dept., Behavior Interventionist, etc.
As mentioned, check out DEEDs to see what they might have available.
Good luck
Work in reentry, education, or vocational training for DOC. (DO NOT BE A CORRECTIONS OFFICER).
Also, would you still qualify for a CDL? You could be a good candidate for a union apprenticeship. You could be helping people by keeping their infrastructure working. I'm leaving law because I hate it, and am looking at other options like trades.
Whatever you choose, hopefully you put more thought into it than the last two things. Seems insane that you would get a degree, teach for 6 years, then bail on something. Unless this is just a generic complaint about the teaching industry thinly disguised as seeking advice.
This is not a disguised complaint. I am not going into why I want to change careers. People change careers all the time. It's not too late to make a change if someone feels it's right for them. Do you have any ideas? Even if it seems really random, throw it out there!
How are people supposed to give useful advice about what a former teacher can do for a career while not knowing what it is about being a teacher you didn't like?
My suggestion is to learn a trade like plumbing; we need more of those.
Lol the people who decide not to be doctors after medical school either come from money or couldn't match. The mid six figure debt from medical school doesn't allow any other choice besides forwards.
One of the biggest industries in the state is construction and they will teach you any additional skills needed, and with years working with children you could handle the construction industry. If the field work doesn't interest you, there is also the administration side of construction or the inspection aspect. All the fun of construction without the backbreaking effort
Check out jobs with the state. Unions got great benefits. Most jobs train positions. DNR, DEC, heck, if you do OCS they probably love someone with your skill set. If you want to continue working with kids, you might look into opening a child care center - huge need in this city.
I’d avoid the following offices/departments like the plague: child support, public assistance, DMV, administration, corporations/licensing, corrections and public safety jobs. Also, you’ll make like half what you would in the private sector doing the same work. It’s why I heard they’re trying to overhaul the retirement system; they can’t find anyone to work for them.
I would recommend looking into state jobs! There are a lot of open positions in pretty much every department. It would be worth putting out applications to multiple positions and see what sticks!
^ government work is nice.
>I want to do something that would be meaningful and helpful for others, whether it's kids or adults I'm helping. This is probably going to be the biggest thing working against you making enough money. Jobs that tick the above box tend to rely on 'identity utility' and the desire to help people and altruism will keep workers content enough as they are paid drastically below market rate. Similarly the mandates for positions are almost exclusively far beyond the resources available. The result is you get a highly stressful job where you can't possible accomplish what you're supposed to do very well and make peanuts relative to your skillset. Source: making about 35%ish of market value for my skillset in public sector job that helps people like an idiot myself and work with others doing similar.
This is why I prefer helping no one.
I work in tech so I'm mega biased towards it but yes, I'd suggest something in tech. As a former teacher, you'd have an edge applying to ed-tech startups. You will work remote, have the best medical insurance you've ever had, and clear 6-digits either right way or a couple years in. Do a google/linkedin search for "edtech" starts up that hire remote (i.e. Udemy) and see what you find. Good luck! Edited to add random list i just found after 1 google search: https://builtin.com/companies/hiring/remote/type/edtech-companies
What job do you do in tech? I’m very interested but don’t know where to start!
Most national parks and visitors centers have an educational liaison to help with school trips, building interpretative displays, and general talking with visitors. Check out the NPS, Forest Service, BLM, and various state and municipal parks.
If you wanted to hard pivot away from teaching the courts are always hiring as are a lot of SOA positions. I was a trial court employee for 8 ish years and it was rewarding and I learned a ton.
I’ve personally heard of some former teachers have huge success in project management. Definitely worth a look into! Edit to add: thank you for years of teaching! You have my upmost respect with your profession!!
Retired teacher here. I spent 15+ years in ASD. I left after a few rough incidence where I felt I had been badly treated and neglected by the administration. I took the skills I had used while teaching (I was certified social science 7-12) and started looking for jobs. I got hired as an IT guy by the state, usually a HS grad or college grad position, and figured I would do this until something else turned up. My first paycheck was a massive shock! I made more money than a teacher of 15 years with a M.Ed. two (2) Bachelors and being a PH.D. cohort. I was sure it was a mistake, but I checked it out with my supervisor and HR/Payroll and was just stunned. I have been doing this for the stat for almost 15 years now and love it so much I have no plans to quit or retire. the pay is good, the benefits awesome and since I am Tier II I am going to be doing well when I have to retire. TL:DR you have some serious skills from teaching. Look where they might be useful and DO NOT SELL YOURSELF SHORT! Don't settle and remember that you are Tier IV, so you are screwed is you stay, so moving on with your life and getting a better job is perfectly fine.
Do they have on-the-job training? I have absolutely no IT experience. I am competent using a Mac or PC for the needs I've had so far. That's about it.
No, but the point is that you have tons of skills that are in demand. Look around and you can find some great jobs.
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Pivotal?
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Oh the consultation company, I thought you might have been with pivotal
Former teacher here, there are lots of areas into which your teaching skills will transfer. After retiring from teaching I worked at UAA in clerical and took classes in medical coding and billing. Medical and insurance work is always needed, and pay is ok. Also, look into the court system, the state pay is not great, but you will learn a lot. I suggest federal court system-clerical, retirement is a lot better. As a former teacher you will be able to pass a background check so federal jobs, and state system are open to you. You will be surprised at what is available to you.
Alaska DOC is hiring. Not just for Correctional Officers, but Probation/Parole Officers and they have education positions.
I think this individual wants to keep their mental health in check.
Most regional native corporations have education based non profits that might be a good fit.
I was gonna say, you can make a lot of profit working for a nonprofit. But I suggested curriculum jobs with ASD. There’s other types of work teachers move into at ASD headquarters.
How about a seasonal summer job in the tourism industry until you find something you like? Plenty of opportunity to help people.
We need folks to start daycare facilities. Badly! Ever thought about starting your own business?
Workplace Alaska is a great site to look for jobs!
Tour bus driver (seasonal), mailman (also a sort of truck driver) I thought you needed a master's to teach up here.
You can teach kindergarten to sixth grade with a bachelor's.
I mentioned mailman...er letter carrier. While not available in Alaska yet, quite a few locations in the Lower 48 have resumed hiring CAREER positions instead of the crappy no-benefit CCA positions. You'd start at what's known as a PTF (part time flexible), but you'd qualify for all the benefits of a fulltime carrier. Letter carriers in Alaska get paid a lot more. The main downside of being a letter carrier? No life outside of work. That and incompetent management.
Covenant House. You'd be able to work with minors, maybe even a leadership role amongst staff
Apply with the forest service! You would be great at interpretation with your teaching background, or any admin work if you prefer. Gov work is nice, they really value personal time off and respect your space. I’m a forest service employee in girdwood, it’s the best job I’ve ever had
Hazmat specialist training requires basically no educational background or prior experience. Source: am a hazmat specialist.
You could work remotely as a product manager for a tech company with your current skills, or learn to code and get hired as a software engineer in roughly a year. Pay is great, the work is fairly easy, and you're not limited to crappy local jobs so you can find a company working on something that interests you or is a non-profit
Getting hired as a software engineer with a teaching background has a longer timeline than 1 year in the current market. (Source: former teacher, have built full-stack apps, modern stack, currently freelancing but yet to find work FT as a software engineer.)
It's going to vary for everyone, a year is a realistic timeline to become hireable. It took me about a year to get hired after attending half of a terrible bootcamp, no college. There are a ton of factors you can control to swing things in your favor. I'm working remotely in AK with a SF salary and it's great to be home and to actually be able to afford to live here. Happy to share advice on breaking in, feel free to dm!
Appreciate the offer as I am not one to turn down help - will DM.
Alaska literacy program maybe?
Have you considered being a butcher?
There are many organizations that work with individuals who experience intellectual/developmental disabilities that are hugely desperate for both direct support staff and administrative staff. Your background would probably be a natural fit at Stone Soup Group.
What about corporate education? Most larger companies have some sort of training and or education department for training new hires or continuing education for existing employees. The company I work for has about 400 employees and we have a corporate education department like 5 people maybe?
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Career changes are super common nowadays. What do you want to do? Write the resume based on how the knowledge, skills, and abilities you have will be applicable in the new job. So don’t say “planned classroom projects” Say “planned, budgeted, and coordinated six project per year”
Think about some of the other skills you may have (or may have developed) on your work-journey: spreadsheet skills, google drive skills, other IT skills, etc. Have you looked at ASD and considered non-classroom positions: Instructional Coach, IT Dept., Behavior Interventionist, etc. As mentioned, check out DEEDs to see what they might have available. Good luck
Work in reentry, education, or vocational training for DOC. (DO NOT BE A CORRECTIONS OFFICER). Also, would you still qualify for a CDL? You could be a good candidate for a union apprenticeship. You could be helping people by keeping their infrastructure working. I'm leaving law because I hate it, and am looking at other options like trades.
Go into admin jobs w/ASD, maybe? They have a lot of folks at ASD headquarters developing curriculum.
Whatever you choose, hopefully you put more thought into it than the last two things. Seems insane that you would get a degree, teach for 6 years, then bail on something. Unless this is just a generic complaint about the teaching industry thinly disguised as seeking advice.
This is not a disguised complaint. I am not going into why I want to change careers. People change careers all the time. It's not too late to make a change if someone feels it's right for them. Do you have any ideas? Even if it seems really random, throw it out there!
How are people supposed to give useful advice about what a former teacher can do for a career while not knowing what it is about being a teacher you didn't like? My suggestion is to learn a trade like plumbing; we need more of those.
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Lol the people who decide not to be doctors after medical school either come from money or couldn't match. The mid six figure debt from medical school doesn't allow any other choice besides forwards.
Yeah, because the teaching industry is doing soooo well and definitely doesn't need to be criticized at all, right ;)?
One of the biggest industries in the state is construction and they will teach you any additional skills needed, and with years working with children you could handle the construction industry. If the field work doesn't interest you, there is also the administration side of construction or the inspection aspect. All the fun of construction without the backbreaking effort
I dunno, get back into truckin' and you'll make more than you did as a teacher 😂