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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
If you are a teacher or laid off, come in
If you are a teacher, I dont have to repeat how much EVERYTHING in teaching sucks right now. Including the pretty pink slips that we are presented with..fun times.
But heres my question, is there anyone out there (or who knows of someone) who actually did something with their teaching degree other than teach.. like going into the business world. Just having a hard time with figuring out which position would actually be interested in someone with a background in teaching instead of business. I need to get creative but not sure how to start.
Or if you are hiring at your company, I would be interested. 
TIA
Re: If you are a teacher or laid off, come in
My husband is a soon to be laid off teacher, but he also has a bachelors in business (marketing). He just got a full time job at a hotel, but it's the hotel he's worked at part-time for about five years now, so it was just an experience thing. The hotel job is a placeholder for him until he can get into teaching full time....no hotel job is a dream job to him by any stretch of the mind.
I work at a university and I know of at least one person that could not find a teaching job that works here now. The one I'm thinking of is a graduate student advisor. We have a couple different positions open right now, but I don't know where they might be in the hiring process....they move at turtle speed sometimes. PM me if you would like more details.
I got my elementary ed degree in May 2006. I searched for a teaching job that summer and come September, I hadn't gotten a job. So I started looking online. I had two interviews and subsequent job offers. One was with a major transportation/shipping company where I would have done some sort of account management. The other job - the one I took - was as a driver training instructor. I have been doing that job since September 2006 and love it. It is still education related, but not a traditional education role.
Long story short, yes businesses are interested in people with education degrees.
I have a teaching degree and never taught. I finished school and got certified, but knew I didn't want to teach, so I never even applied for teaching jobs. I went into sales/account management instead.
If you're wanting to transition into the business world, I might recommend looking for something along the lines of a corporate trainer.....still teaching, just not in a classroom. Or maybe an office manager/project manager. Teachers are good with people, usually well-organized, and can multi-task.....these kinds of skills translate well to the business world, but you just have to know how to market yourself.
Or, you can look into jobs that are linked with educational facilities, but not actually teaching -- jobs at schools or universities (clerical/admin work, finance, etc -- depends on your individual skills).
Then there are the kinds of jobs (like sales) where they don't really care what your degree is in, as long as you have one.
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HTH!
i didn't know that.
i was at a conference once and they said something like over 60% of people don't work in the field that they have their degree in so i don't think you should have a problem. a degree isn't what it used to be as far as a specific major.
I agree with this. I have a music degree in piano performance (super useful degree) and it's not something I use at all in my full time job.
I'm an architect (as in buildings, not data). I work in a website programming company.
Just start applying for stuff.
My official intro was just posted. Thanks though.
If there are any teachers who need High School jobs let me know, the Detroit charter school where I work is usually looking for teachers. I can always slip a resume in!
(the pay isn't great, but it's a good school with good kids!)
Thanks ladies for all your suggestions and ideas. I just tweeted my resume to make it sound more business-like. And now I am hitting up the job sites.
Fun times.