Orange ponders...

[sarah_orange]

My brain has spent the past few days persuading me I should become a Maths teacher.
How odd.
I've even started looking at PCGEs and SKEs.
Odder still

Doubt it will happen - kids see right through me and I'm not sure I can wield the appropriate level of authority.
Plus it'd be a fairly hefty pay cut at first. Not that pay is that important above a certain level in a job that gives you job satisfaction.

Hmm

Comments

[sarah-orange.livejournal.com]

yeah you get the golden handshake too with maths. it's not that - it's more whether I have the temprament to be a teacher or whether I'd end up being one of those useless ones where the class just riots around you and no-one learns *anything*

[smoke-rising.livejournal.com]

I thought I'd end up as one of those, but, amazingly, it happens less than you'd think.

[breadlord.livejournal.com]

You're French / English teacher, right? There's a surfeit of those. I know about five 'science' teachers, and they all make as much / more as me...

[smoke-rising.livejournal.com]

Teachers' pay doesn't vary according to subject, rather according to experience and responsibilities. Your friends must have been teaching longer and be less lazy than me :-)

Also, did you get my email about the wedding? :)

[breadlord.livejournal.com]

Yeah, they have, but for the most part not more than a year. I think if the school wants / needs you they can put you on a higher pay spine to begin with, at their discretion...

I did get your mail about the wedding, and I was going to RSVP in the affirmative - but was going to send it by post...

OK. I will come to your wedding. Mwah.