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Get out of teaching while you are still healthy.

When you talk to any group of teachers over 30 years old, you find that more than half of the group are looking for a way out of the day job, an escape plan.

Your health deteriorates the longer you stay in teaching.

If you teach until you are 65 then you can only expect to draw your pension for two years.

Two years is the average time teachers live for if they work till 65.

As a teacher you have long holidays, but your stress levels are killing you. If you get out of teaching, even into another job, your stress levels go down and you will not need six weeks holiday from work every summer.

Your Skills

You have a wide variety of skills which will allow you to earn a living outside of teaching.

Every teacher has acquired a high level proficiency in non-verbal communication, in group psychology, in explaining diificult concepts, in planning a sequence of tasks. These are all high level management skills.

You will have other individual skills that can be used to form the basis of your escape plan. These may be as simple as typing or writing, or maybe you had another job before you entered the classroom.

hese skills could earn you money. You will need to hone them and apply them in new ways., but you will start to enjoy your life again.

The Problems

1. Overqualified.

Some employers see professionals as over-qualified for jobs outside their immediate field. Others see those same professionals as being under-qualified in the specific skills that most jobs require.

2. Too old

If you have reached a certain age, then you will be considered too old and untrainable in many positions. Being older also makes you more experienced in life, you can recognise BS more easily.

A 25 yr old manager will be apprehensive about the prospect of managing an experienced and older ex-professional.

Young managers are never going to appoint a well rounded, articulate and intelligent 45 yr old professional to a position if there is a malleable 22 yr old who will do the job.

3. Putting it off

How long have you been thinking about leaving teaching? It is very easy to just work from day to day and think about the summer holidays. Before you know it you will be 60.

4. Financial worries

Older people, especially educated professionals like teachers have many financial commitments, including sons and daughters at university and mortgages so want higher pay.

The Answers

How do teachers escape teaching then? How can you come up with an escape plan with everything so biased against you from the start?

What's the solution? How do you get out of your day job? Where do you start with your escape plan? - become self-employed.

Most escape plans involve using those skills that have been acquired through long years of experience in teaching in a self-employed role.

It's time to start working on your "Escape Plan" NOW!

Option 1 - Make money Online

The question everyone wants the answer to is:- "Can you make money on the Internet?"

The honest answer is yes, but it involves lots of work and only a tiny proportion of people looking to make a good living online actually do so.

Option 2 - Write Resources

You can make some money by publishing your resources, either yourself, or through an educational publishing company.

Option 3 - Find another Job

Plan ahead, take courses, acquire the skills you will need and get the papers that prove you are qualified.

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