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NY Times: Teaching not a fallback career

Posted by Dan

April 23, 2009 |

It happens during every economic downturn: Workers fired from their corporate jobs get an idea. They decide to become teachers.

Workers see it as a break from the corporate rat race. They see themselves surrounded by motivated fellow teachers and eager students.

Of course, all of this is fantasy. Just ask anyone who actually works as a teacher.

Or, you can check out this story in the New York Times. In it, a panel of educators warns fired employees that teaching should not be considered a fallback career.

Being a teacher requires real commitment. The pay isn’t always great. It can be an extremely frustrating job, one with as much bureacratic red tape as any other.

And, even worse, it’s getting awfully hard to find an open teaching job these days. There just aren’t a lot of openings.

Yes, it’s just one more bit of bubble-bursting in this dismal economy. It’s getting to the point where all of our working world fantasies are disappearing.


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