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girl with no internships graduating in a month: become a teacher so i have SOMETHING full time and not retail
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Anonymous 3w

plus i do genuinely care about the education of children i think it’s important

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Anonymous 3w

Teaching is honestly so wonderful despite the few students you’ll get who simply just don’t care! If you value education and imparting knowledge, I’d absolutely recommend it!

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Anonymous 3w

do you have any kind of teaching certification? you can’t usually just become a teacher with no relevant degree or certs

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Anonymous 3w

If its something you think you could excel at and actually care about then why not? Certification can be a little difficult not pursuing the degree just because you need to nav on your own and certain states require a masters at some point but if youre willing to shoulder all that I think the emotional and moral fulfillment bridges the kinda weak pay

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 3w

by “can’t” i mean that you literally legally cannot if you try to work at a public school and you’re not very likely to get hired even at a private school (unless they’re really desperate i guess)

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 3w

aware of that. this is more of a should i or should i not kind of thing not getting into the specifics

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 3w

fair, i was moreso just pointing out that it’s kind of a process so if you’re just wanting a job to hold you over immediately post-grad until you can get something else then it might be tough to just jump into depending on your location

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 3w

that said if you’re locked in and you’re okay with the associated costs and whatnot as well as all the things that kinda suck about being a teacher (especially a new, inexperienced teacher) then it could be a good option. i would def think hard about it though—there’s a reason that like a third of teachers quit within 5 years

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