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Originally Posted by blankall
You're also looking at a minimum of 5 years of education, plus a struggle to find a permanent job. Realistically, though most post-secondary teachers have a full four year bachelor's plus a two year teacher's college degree. Many have a master's on top of that.
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Most teachers have bachelor's in subjects like Sociology, History, and English. Compare the salary of someone with a master's in Sociology, 10 years out of school, with a teacher. I'm liking the teacher's odds of coming out ahead. And unless you work in the public sector, you're unlikely to have benefits - especially a pension - anywhere close to as good as what teachers have.
There's a reason there's no shortage at all of people taking up teaching as a profession. It's a very secure, comfortable, middle-class career, especially compared with anything else you're likely to end up with if you come out of the humanites, social sciences, or fine arts.