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I Left Teaching for the Trades—And Learned Something Even More Valuable
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.
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5 Things No One Tells You About Leaving Teaching
From navigating unemployment benefits to adjusting to a world that doesn’t revolve around bells and lesson plans, here are five things no one tells you about life after the classroom.
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The Start of a New Chapter
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.
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