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Hibernia Training

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  • 09-06-2009 4:40pm
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    westerner
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    I am 44 and hoping to embark on hibernia on line primary teaching course. i will be almost 47 when i complete it.. teaching is all i have ever wanted to do and am very experienced in business with mba etc. I have done lot of work with young people but I have not taught in schools.. So do you think (a) I am too old (b) there are job prospects post the course


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    Toto Wolfcastle
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    Moved from Hibernia secondary teaching thread.


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    Rosita
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    westerner wrote: »
    I am 44 and hoping to embark on hibernia on line primary teaching course. i will be almost 47 when i complete it.. teaching is all i have ever wanted to do and am very experienced in business with mba etc. I have done lot of work with young people but I have not taught in schools.. So do you think (a) I am too old (b) there are job prospects post the course



    I will leave (b) to others as I wouldn't know, but the answer to (a) is emphatically NO - a thousands times NO. Put any such notion out of your head. Talking about being 44 now and nearly 47 when you finish makes it sound like three years, but it's a mere 18 months which is the grand scheme of things is nothing.


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    gaeilgegrinds
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    I'd never say anybody is too old to retrain. I've had people in their 60s in my classes. Regarding b...do you need a job? As in are you doing this to fulfill some wish or do you need to get a job out of it. There are many unemployed Primary teachers out there. I think your life experience will stand to you but I don't know how easy it will be for you, or anybody else might I add, to get a job.


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    westerner
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    Tks a milllion for your reply.. I am definitely doing it to fulfill a lifelong dream but practically speaking I also need to work to support my family so I will need to get a job at the end of it but If i out there fighting for the jobs with the rest of the graduates then I will take my chances and hope that I do get work.. If not then I will have to find alternative employment.. meanwhile I am hell bent on applying to get on the Feb Hibernia Course and in the interim will be working on my irish .. :p


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    gaeilgegrinds
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    Well you know where to come for help with the Irish, had a class of 12 who re-sat the LC HL paper just there, all were out of school years and all worked really hard. Was such a pleasure to teach. Best of luck.


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    westerner
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3 ✭westerner


    thanks so much for the support.


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