Have you ever faced unemployment or long term unemployment before?

[JWeinCom]

DonFerrari said:

JWeinCom said:
I've been unemployed for about a month, and it's getting me more depressed than I usually am.

I was a teacher, but I just couldn't do it. It wasn't for me. Unfortunately a teaching degree doesn't allow you to do much else besides teach (my undergrad was in English) so I'm sort of shit out of luck. I'm looking to get into the legal world so I've been filling out applications for entry level paralegal work. That's usually a straight out of college thing, so I was hoping an advanced degree would give me an edge, but no luck so far. I may go to law school, but that means another three years, and I'm terrified of winding up in a similar situation 3 years from now, finding out that I'm not equipped to be a lawyer either.

The whole thing has me feeling like shit and scared out of my mind that I'll just never be able to work. Has me just about on the verge of a breakdown. Just needed to vent I guess.

Before starting or getting feed up with being a teacher you dreamed about it or was just a out of the moment decision? Because really a major in teaching with minor in English wouldn't have much use out of it. If you may want some tip, you may try some career as instructor, just need to learn the trade or subjects because the teaching methodology you already know. And an Instructor have much shorter contact with people and usually people that really want to learn that, so much "easier" to deal than teaching to young people.

I wouldn't say I dreamed of it, but it was something I thought I would reasonably enjoy, and something that I'd be good at.  Unfortunately I was wrong.  Part of it is me I'm sure. I tend to be really hard on myself when things aren't going well, which is a natural part of teaching.  I'm not always super organized which is important.  Part of it is the system being broken.  Like, when you have a class where some of your brighter students still add on their fingers and you're supposed to be teaching them things like multiplying decimals.