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Change of Career

  • 22-04-2014 3:22pm
    #1
    Sin e
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5 ✭


    Hope ye can help me here.
    I am looking into a change in Career not by choice but by the current economic situation. (like everyone else) I was in construction but now looking for something different. I am in my mid thirties and have a National Diploma in Architectural Technology. How would I go about looking into teaching either primary or secondary? I am in Munster. Sound very vague but trying to look at different situations where i can get back on track.
    Thanks.


Comments

  • #2
    whiteandlight
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,359 ✭✭✭whiteandlight


    Read the following recent threads first:

    Subjects

    Message to wannabee teachers

    Applying for teaching

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=89502859

    At a minimum you need a degree in at least one teachable subject and the two year Masters in Education to teach at 2nd level.

    You need a degree and the conversion DIP or a full Primary Teaching Degree for teaching at Primary level


  • #3
    Sin e
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5 ✭Sin e


    Thank you will get through those posts. At a glance it doesnt look sweet but to be honest anything must be better that self employed at the moment. No dependable income, no dole if I give up, no holidays, no time off, work comes home, no chance of credit, late hours for nothing in return just stress and more stress. :-(


  • #4
    whiteandlight
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,359 ✭✭✭whiteandlight


    Well some of that isn't going to change. Teaching has been seriously casualized; you won't have any job security at all for several years at the very minimum, assuming you get work at all when you qualify. It's a high stress environment if you are a passionate teacher. Planning and preparation takes way in excess of the perceived time by others. The profession is vilified by large sections of society and media in recent years


    Having said all that I love teaching, it's in the blood so to speak. You have the awful discouraging moments when you are in your sixth/seventh/eighth... year qualified and still have no job security but there are great moments with students too and those are the important ones.

    I will say I don't expect to make it to the end of my career life and still be teaching-at the current rate of work I'll have burnt out or moved on


    Edit: Also you are entitled to dole as self employed, it's just means tested. Jobs seekers benefit does not apply but jobs seekers allowance does


  • #5
    Ferg29
    Registered Users Posts: 9 ✭Ferg29


    Can't speak for primary teaching but I wouldn't recommend anyone on becoming a secondary teacher...especially if you're looking for stable work. Been in 10 schools in 4 years on a casual/subbing basis. Nightmare. Looking for work outside of the profession now.


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