This is on my mind constantly and I thought I'd post to see if any of you had feedback. Its kind of long, and hopefully not too whiney. Thanks in advance for listening!
I've been a teacher for 10 years now (1-8th grade music) and I'm coming face to face with a few things that I can't ignore anymore:
1. As much as I feel good at what I do (and grateful to have a job where I can help others), I never felt it was good for me. Teaching kids has always stressed me out so much, even on a good day, I go home wound up, short of breath, and exhausted.
2. If I were to work from home at least part of the time, it would better suit me - I'm a great homebody and enjoy working at home, and also hopefully would lower my stress and therefore my ibs.
3. I hated school all my life, and the same things that bothered me as a kid, bother me more as an adult! The insistance on uniformity, the compartmentalized learning, I could go on but I won't here!
4. I need to feel I'm being more creative in my work.
5. I'm tired of being tired every day.
6. I need to be in a job where I feel I'm helping people but it would be great if it was something more flexible, and where I was working one on one or in small groups.
I'm a little hesitant to post this since I know at least one of you is looking for a teaching job and thats what I'm complaining about having! I'm not ungrateful for what I have. I try, even now as I'm thinking about leaving, to work very hard and to be thankful for having a good job. On the other hand, I feel like not listening to my body and not listening to what I'm learnign about how I function best.
I may not leave, I have a baby girl, and can't afford to just quit and figure it out. I'll have to work hard to line up other work before I can make the decision.
I'm actually finishing up a training in Feldenkrais method, I'll be a certified practitioner this spring. But as its not something that many ppeople have even heard of, I will probably build a practice over several years. In the meantime, I am thinking of: some combination of a few things such as teaching part time, and private music lessons. Opening up a web-business (very risky I know), opening up my own music school, doing school performances with some friends (this pays surprisingly well but isn't exactly working from home)
Any ideas? Get rich quick schemes? (this reminds me, there's a teacher in my school who last year was trying to get many of us to join a pyramid scheme she was a part of!)
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seriously considering leaving my job!
