re: Being a teacher/coach is awesome

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Depending on where he teaches he could have a starting base salary in the low 40's. Extra money teaching summer school.....if he isn't married and has no kids....then yup he can do those things.

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Teaching in Houston starts you at 50k

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Teaching history in super fun and challenging

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I hate to call anyone delusional but. I'm guessing you are a coach who teaches on the side, and you probably goof off most of the class period with the players.

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coaching/giving private lessons



So, how many high school girls have you molested?

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Depending on where he teaches he could have a starting base salary in the low 40's

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Yea, my starting salary, before you factor in coaching stipends, is higher than this

Congrats on the teachers salary

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Teaching history in super fun and challenging during the school year. Coaching is pretty much the most fun and rewarding thing possible.

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it's all fun and games till you get busted sexing some of your students

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And all summer all I'm doing is making extra $$$ teaching summer school and coaching/giving private lessons. Now I can go on a few banging arse vacations and put a crap ton of money in my savings.

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As a former teacher... HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA yearh ok.

Do you have your master's? I assume you live in Louisiana where they don't reward master's degrees that well. Let's put you in Alabama where the master's increase is more substantial.

With a master's and ten years of experience, you're making $50k/year.

Are you the head coach of a major sport? Probably not. Maybe you are, but probably not if you have time for side jobs in the summer.

So you probably make at most $2000/year for coaching (which includes a lot of your time.

What side gig do you have? Summer school? What is that? $2000/summer?

Private lessons? Let's say you're really popular and are making bank with it. $2000 for the two months? Let's say $3000 for the argument.

So you make $57k a year.

Stringed,
You say you were a teacher before, I assume you got out. I am looking to transition out of education myself, just wanted to see what you did now and how did you get started.
Thanks

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Stringed,
You say you were a teacher before, I assume you got out. I am looking to transition out of education myself, just wanted to see what you did now and how did you get started.
Thanks

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Warning - I am going to depress you and myself.

I am a very good guitar player, so I became a full time musician. Taught lessons and played some gigs. Didn't like teaching lessons that much because they were inconsistent and most of my students didn't practice. Felt like I was wasting a lot of time. Not too much different than teaching except I was on track to make $50k/year on lessons alone, and I spent maybe 20-25 hours a week doing them.

Decided to go to graduate school because I had a high GRE score. Got a full fellowship and am currently studying rhetoric and composition with a focus on technical writing.

The original plan was to go get my PhD, but I have a family and I can't sacrifice another 5-6 years of my life. I want money again.

So I looked into tech writing jobs, but they are your typical 9-5, little vacation time, decent benefits, office jobs and I would make about the same amount as I would teaching.

Soooooo looks like I'll be going back into teaching next year, but that's okay because I can make $15k/year easily with guitar on the side. Add in the $50k a year as a teacher with time off and benefits, and I won't be doing too shabby.

If I could give you advice, it would be to force yourself to do something completely different. I had a unique opportunity with the support from my wife to go back to school. I decided to get a master's in English when I had already disliked being an English teacher. Should have gone into nursing I think.