I left teaching for an electrical apprenticeship, hoping for a hands-on, rewarding career. Instead, I found another broken system. This is my journey through the trades—what I learned, why I left, and how it shaped my next steps.
Teaching wasn’t just a job—it was a life I’d built around familiarity and routine, even when it stopped feeling right. In this post, I’ll share the honest, sometimes messy story of how and why I finally walked away from the classroom.
