Have you ever faced unemployment or long term unemployment before?

[DonFerrari]

JWeinCom said:

DonFerrari said:

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.

Understood... teaching is really for a very few people. Usually you'll either find people that are very passionate and want to pass down knowledge or you'll see people that failed at their fields retrieving for teaching position to put food on the table and complain all the time about being ill paid and whatnot.

I hope you can get back on your foot fast.