If you are sitting on the fence trying to decide if it's time to stay or go from your teaching career, it might help if you explored what exactly is holding you back? What are you really afraid of? And might it be possible for you to start a preliminary job search without committing one way or the other so you know what you're getting into before you commit to quitting your current job?
You may also want to take an inventory of the skills you have and make a list. Consider how you need to translate those skills into keywords that a hiring manager or recruiter will understand because rest assured, they won't bother to learn your language.
Play in the field of possibilities as you consider whether a career change is right for you. Maybe it isn't feasible for you to change careers. Then might it be possible for you to change schools, districts, or subject matter?
Listen to hear more about what Kitty has to offer this week on the subject of what is holding you back?
If you are sitting on the fence trying to decide if it's time to stay or go from your teaching career, it might help if you explored what exactly is holding you back? What are you really afraid of? And might it be possible for you to start a preliminary job search without committing one way or the other so you know what you're getting into before you commit to quitting your current job?
You may also want to take an inventory of the skills you have and make a list. Consider how you need to translate those skills into keywords that a hiring manager or recruiter will understand because rest assured, they won't bother to learn your language.
Play in the field of possibilities as you consider whether a career change is right for you. Maybe it isn't feasible for you to change careers. Then might it be possible for you to change schools, districts, or subject matter?
Listen to hear more about what Kitty has to offer this week on the subject of what is holding you back?
Are you a teacher who's feeling stressed out and overwhelmed. Do you worry that you're feeling symptoms of burnout or are you sure you've already gotten there? Have you started to dream of doing some other kind of job or perhaps pursuing a whole different career, but you don't know what else you're even qualified to do. You don't know how to start a job search. You just feel stuck. If that sounds like you, I promise you're not alone. My name is kitty boy. Not I'm a career transition and job search coach. And I specialize in helping burnout out teachers just like you deal, not only with the stress and overwhelm of your day to a job, but to consider what other careers might be out there waiting for you. Join me for teachers in transition. In some episodes, I'll be speaking to stress management techniques and how you can manage your stress on a day to day basis. In other episodes, I'll be talking about career. What tools do you need to be successful in a job search when you're moving from one career into a totally different track. These are questions that you need answers to and I can help you find those answers. My name is kitty boy, not welcome to teachers in transition.
Speaker 2:Welcome back to another episode of teachers in transition, the podcast and the YouTube channel. My name is kitty boy, not. I am the owner of boy, not coaching LLC, and the founder of teachers in transition. I talk about career transition and stress management on alternating weeks because I am a trained and experienced heart centered career transition and job search coach. And I am also a certified stress management coach. This week, the topic is career search or job trans transfer, uh, career search, whatever, whatever you wanna call it, career transition, whatever you wanna refer to it as. And I want to speak to those of you who may be out there listening to this because you're right on the cusp of making a decision about whether or an not, you want to go back to the classroom next year and you are hanging back because you don't know how to start a job search. You don't know what you're qualified to do. You don't have any idea what it would entail or how much it might cost. And so you're stuck. You're stuck sitting there on the fence, not moving forward, but not really wanting to move back either because you're pretty fed up with what's going on in your current situation. That's the case or you wouldn't be listening to this podcast. I suspect. So I wanna suggest to you that as you are sitting there on the fence, trying to decide what to do that. Even if you commit to starting a job search, if it makes you feel any less uncertain, less, uh, safe consider that you don't have to act on anything that you find. Once you have launched a job search, all you're doing is exploring. It's an exploratory venture. It's, uh, taking a look at what might be out there without making any commitment to anything. You don't have to quit your job today. You don't have to assert your intention to leave today. In fact, my best advice is if the date come up for you to be offering your letter of intent for next year, you go ahead and sign it. Like just like you're planning to come back because you really don't wanna quit your current job until you have a new job at hand. Now I know there are a lot of people out there who are quitting left, and, and they're not looking back. They just know they can't do it anymore. And so they're done and they're gone and that's fine. I get it. But I have mentioned that the cliche about being easier to find a job when you already have a job is a cliche because it's mostly true. So if you've already quit, don't panic, it just means you need to up your game and really commit yourself to your job search in a specific way. But if you are sitting there on the fence trying to decide, do I, you know, do I try to find some new, do I take that risk? What happens if I do find something that I might like, what happens if I don't find something that I might like, there's no way to answer any of your questions until you at least take a look that you're at least willing to explore. And the, there are some resources out there to help you to explore where you can fit yourself in professionally and other types of jobs and other types of careers. So play, play in the field of possibilities. That's what I tell my clients all the time. And, and don't commit yourself too quickly to any one particular career path that sounds intriguing while you don't know exactly what it entails or exactly what kind of skills you would need to have to embark on that particular career. You don't want to be impulsive and you don't wanna act out of sheer emotion. You want to be intentional. You wanna be smart. And to start you take, um, an exploratory attitude, you're gonna just check to see what's out there and decide if there's anything that is of interest to you. Maybe there won't be. And so maybe that means you need to stay in teaching. You need to find a different situation, a different school, a different district, a different subject matter, something that will change up what's going on with you in your current situation. So that's one thing that I want to suggest to you that you take that exploratory attitude and play in the field of possibilities. The other thing I want you to take a look at though, is what is it exactly that's holding you back from taking that first step? I, I suspect it's fear of the unknown and that is normal and it is to be expected and it's okay. It's okay to be considerate of what it is that you don't know about something. Again, I'm not suggesting that you leap head first into anything impulsively, but I would urge you to think in terms of are the fears that are holding you back really logical, or should you consider that they are Phantoms? If you will, um, shadows of fear from maybe a venture you tried, you know, in the past that didn't work out so well. So I'm, I'm urging you not to let your past mistakes or past, um, misadventures to necessarily guide you in this particular instance. And to have the courage to again, explore the field of possibilities. It doesn't have to cost you a sense to Google a list of jobs that teachers have transitioned to, and then Google what those jobs entail go to on net, online.org for free listings of all kinds of jobs and occupations that offer the kind of training you need, the kind knowledge, the kind of skills, the kind of background, the kind of education what's the median salary, all of that is on, on net, online.org. So check that out and consider that as a teacher, you have many transferable skills, many of them that you're not even aware of because they've are so much a part of you that you haven't figured out what it is that makes you different and unique from other candidates who might be out there looking for a job. But as teachers, you definitely have transferable skills. So that would be another thing you might wanna take a look at isolate and make a list of what do you believe or your transferable skills. And then you'll want to learn how to translate those skills into the language of the business or nonprofit that you are interested in working for. They aren't going to bother to learn your language. So you're going to have to learn to, to learn, to translate what you do into their language. So those are just some tips, you know, what's holding you back, what's keeping you from playing in the field of possibilities, take a look, just an exploratory. Look at the things that might be out there. You don't have to start a job search right away to be exploring possibilities and make a list of all the things you know, you can do that you can do well, that you've learned as a teacher over the course of your career. And once you've done some of that work, you may feel more comfortable moving on into the next step. And I'll talk about that. The next time I talk about career transition and job search strategies in two weeks. So that's it for today. Take care, stay well, be safe. And I will see you again next week.
Speaker 1:So there you have it, an episode of teachers in transition. I hope you enjoyed the information and I hope you'll plan to come back. Please subscribe to teachers in transition so that you can be alerted of future episodes. And let me know if you have any questions or topics that you would like me to specifically cover in a future episode, I'm more than happy to help with in will questions as well. So email me at kitty boy, not boy.coaching.com. If you are interested in finding a new career or just enjoying your life more, this is the place to start. I'm kitty boy not. And this is teachers in transition.