Another "Get Out" Thread . . .

[2muchcoffeeman]

I just decided, right here, right now, in the middle of typing a story: I'm going to be a teacher. An English teacher. A high school English teacher.

It was an English teacher who got me into journalism, which was fine when the industry wasn't what it is today. It was a teacher who coached me in basketball all through high school, and if it wasn't for hoops, I may not have gone to college in the first place.

It pays about the same. But I get the summers off. I work 9-5. It's sort of what I do now - reading, editing, story telling, etc.

Now. I have to contact the university.

Good for you.

Other thoughts:
Environmental engineering. There'll be a lot of jobs for the next 50 years trying to find ways to make things more energy efficient.
Or, like Petty said, the Navy. Easily the most preferable branch of the service. Except perhaps for the Coast Guard.

Unless the situation has changed significantly, Coasties aren't well paid even for a military organization.

And for those of you pushing nursing, please remember that both the physical wear-and-tear and the mental stress in hospital nursing is much higher than most people realize. And that doctor's offices normally don't pay nearly as well as hospitals.

 

[Sam Mills 51]

And for those of you pushing nursing, please remember that both the physical wear-and-tear and the mental stress in hospital nursing is much higher than most people realize. And that doctor's offices normally don't pay nearly as well as hospitals.

Hours in private practice are usually cushy, but because so many nurses want those set hours, cushy conditions and such, the pay usually lacks.

Hospitals are in a screaming need for nurses everywhere. Pay is pretty good, conditions are pretty decent at some facilities and the demand has gotten to the point where traveling nurses make nice coin and ones willing to work weekends (better known as being "Baylored). The hours can be kinda wacky, but unlike journalism, the pay, benefits and job security is difficult to beat.

 

[J-School Blue]

As soon as I get my shirt together enough to enter grad school without the debt killing me (I don't mind it hurting me, just not killing) I'm headed back for a library science masters. Better money, better job security and openings looming over the next ten years as the current crop of Baby Boomers shuffles off into the stacks of retirement.

I could never teach on the grade school or high school level. I respect the heck out of people who can, but I'm not one of those people.