"Willow Herself" wrote in
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I was teaching history and morals (which is really an ethic class, they
just never changed the name). Also social studies...

I miss history.. I miss the teenagers. I love Weight Watchers.. but it
IS a lot of running around.. for each 3 hours paid, I work 5 at
least... and gas.. and...

Also, as much as I hate money, I want a bigger home with a real
backyard, I want to not worry that if there's an emergency in my
family I won't have the money to go (I'm from east Canada, living in
California, going home cost around 1000$ round trip)...

It's just time to do something.. I've given WW all that I had to
give.. now I want it to become something I do for fun... not for a
living..
Will~

There are so many great rewards from teaching, especially the health
benefits that I assume you don't have with WW. The running around for
WW would drive me crazy. As I mentioned before I know our leaders have
to cover a huge territory and the hours for meetings are early morning
to evening 7 days a week, not that they are working all of those but I
know you have to cover for people on vacation. With a teaching job it
will be more stable over all. The state is finally more favorable
toward improving education so there should be more jobs available too.
I know our district is finally hiring more teachers.

Best of luck with your credentialing program. I was smart because I got
my BA at age 20, life credential at 21 and MA at 24 so even though I
didn't teach when my kids were young, it was easy to get back into this
after school tutoring job I began 6 years ago. I work for the school
district so I didn't have to drum up my own business.

Audrey