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are you a montessori teacher?

  • 16-09-2008 9:25am
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11


    Hi I was thinking about leaving my boring office job and doing something totally different like montessori teaching. If you're a teacher at the moment I would love to hear what your job is really like. What are your hours like and what is your pay like? Do you find it satisfying/tiring?....Do you think it's a job for life or that you feel you'll want to do something else in a few years? Are parents more demanding these days? Do you find the work stressful? are there many jobs actually out there or do u just have to take what you can get?.........any info would be great thanks


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  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 12,514 Mod ✭✭✭✭byhookorbycrook


    unless you are the owner of a Montessori pay can be poor,also some places claim to be Montessori and are only glorified playschools, charging more money!I'd suggest you try for work experience before you give up your current job and see if you think it's for you.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11 wonders00


    hey thanks for the advice I would definitely go for some work experience first. I suppose it's not the kind of job you do for the money really, more the job satisfaction. Have no idea how much you would come out with but I'm sure it would be a lot less than I earn now. Does anyone else feel like changing to a career you actually want to do is just never financially viable and so you just stick to what you're doing because it pays the bills????? Nearly everyone I work with would rather be doing some other job...im in financial services....school leavers whatever you do avoid financial services...!!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 419 ✭✭beaushalloe


    im totally with you on that one wonders, i work in the childcare sector and it is very rewaring but not on monetary terms. pay for montessori or any other childcare worker is not great for the job and responsibility that you have. and like everything else no one knows what way things are going to go with the recession, montessori tends to be mornings only so for people who traditionally leave their kids in (stay at home moms) it may not be financially viaible anymore. you could get a place in a full time setting that offers montessori (not a glorified playschool as the op said:rolleyes:) and at least you would have full time work.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 988 ✭✭✭IsThatSo?


    wonders00 wrote: »
    hey thanks for the advice I would definitely go for some work experience first. I suppose it's not the kind of job you do for the money really, more the job satisfaction. Have no idea how much you would come out with but I'm sure it would be a lot less than I earn now. Does anyone else feel like changing to a career you actually want to do is just never financially viable and so you just stick to what you're doing because it pays the bills????? Nearly everyone I work with would rather be doing some other job...im in financial services....school leavers whatever you do avoid financial services...!!!

    I am, no strike that, was in financial services too and the only reason I stuck it so long was because it paid the bills and I was worried about my mortgage and the complications it would cause if I left the job. I am on a career break now and also thinking of changing direction completely. I was thinking about national school teaching :) One thing for sure, now that I have made the break I will NOT be falling back into that trap :)

    I second your advice to school leavers...............


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