Many teachers feel stuck when they start to think about leaving the classroom. They can't imagine what else they are "qualified" to do, and it makes them feel helpless and even hopeless.
In this week's episode, Kitty urges people to not let who are ARE define who they want to become. When transitioning from one career to another whether it is teaching or any other career, imagine what you would like to do instead and then plot out a way to help you get there.
What you do now does not need to limit you to one particular path in life. Listen to see what Kitty has to say about that.
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Many teachers feel stuck when they start to think about leaving the classroom. They can't imagine what else they are "qualified" to do, and it makes them feel helpless and even hopeless.
In this week's episode, Kitty urges people to not let who are ARE define who they want to become. When transitioning from one career to another whether it is teaching or any other career, imagine what you would like to do instead and then plot out a way to help you get there.
What you do now does not need to limit you to one particular path in life. Listen to see what Kitty has to say about that.
#teachers #teacher #teachersintransition #careerchange #careeradvice #jobchange #jobsearch
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 Boitnott. I'm a career transition and job search coach. And I specialize in helping burn out teachers. Just like you deal, not only with the stress and overwhelm of your day-to-day 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 transition. 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. Boitnott welcome to teachers and transition.
Speaker 2:Welcome back to episode 136 of teachers in transition the podcast and the YouTube channel. My name is Katie[inaudible]. I am the founder of teachers in transition, the owner of [inaudible] coaching and consider myself a heart-centered career transition and job search coach specializing in working with burnout teachers who are ready to make a career change, but don't know how or where to start. I'm also a certified stress management coach. So if you've listened to this podcast in the past, you know that I alternate topics each week, one week I talk about stress management strategies and on alternating weeks, I talk about career transition strategies. And this week the topic is career transition. What it occurs to me to talk about today is the importance of not letting what you do, define who you are, or stop you from becoming what you want. Now, what do I mean by that? Whether you are a teacher or a lawyer or an accountant or whatever it is that you might consider yourself to be. Although most of the folks who listen to this podcast, I suspect are teachers. Most of them, when they start to think about making a change in their job or career, they consider first, what is it that they think they might be qualified to do based on their past, based on what they do right now. And the problem with that is that it's very, very limiting. You won't get very far, frankly, if you only stick to jobs that you think are suitable for former teachers or former lawyers or former accountants, I'm suggesting that you need to expand your horizons and consider more instead of what you've been doing and what you consider yourself to be. What would you like to be, imagine starting with a clean slate based on your past experiences, based on your education, based on your personal life, up to this point in time, all of the cumulative experiences that you've had, looking down the future, looking away towards what you would like to become, what would that look like for you? If you could start fresh using all of the experiences that you have up until this point, but what if you could reconfigure them, redefine yourself, become something totally new and different even while using your past experiences. In my case, it became obvious after a while that what I needed to do in my career transition was to take all of the years of experience that I have had as an educator, my education and my interests, my stage in life, when I decided to leave the classroom behind and embrace something brand new and at the time totally unknown. And what emerged from all of that was, and the other thing I do have to offer a desire to continue to stay in connection with teachers some way somehow in some form, and to be of service some way somehow in some form, those were the two things that I knew for sure that I wanted to stay in touch with teachers that I wanted to be of service. Everything else was a big question, mark. But what I knew was that I had 37 years of experience working with teachers, working in different schools and in different school environments with different administrators. I had all of those years of experience to pull on. I also had education. I had one master's degree, a second master's degree and a PhD in educational leadership. So what could I do with all of that? I also had an interest in the spirit, the spiritual side of life. I was at the time that I was going through my particular transition. I was finishing up my licensure requirements to become a licensed science of mind minister, which is probably where the need to be of service in some way came, came through. And I, I decided somehow to use all of that, to create something brand new, which was ultimately point not coaching. And then after that, the founding of teachers and transition, that was my particular journey. So what I'm suggesting to you, if you're listening to this podcast or you're watching this video and you're thinking, yeah, I want to make a change, but I don't know how, I don't know where to start. I don't know what I would want to be, to start with making an assessment of everything you've done up to this point in your life, write it all down. If you need to, to remind yourself of all the things you've done, all the contributions you've made, all the experiences that you love and would love to engage in, again, along with all of the experiences that you didn't love and would prefer not to have to do again, because all of that information can inform who you are about to become and your next career without doing that, pre-work you can't intentionally create a future that is going to be coherent for you. You might find a new job, but who's to say that it won't be worse than the job that you had, if you are intentional about what you choose to do next. So take time in, in the very beginning of your desire to make a change. When you first start to think about I'm ready to make a change, but I don't know how, where to start, where you start is with an assessment of where you are, where you've been and where you'd like to be going. And there may be some assessments or some reading that you can do to help you. Along the way. I recommend a number of books to my clients. I offer a number of assessments that you might take advantage of. They're all out there. Some are free, some are low fees, some are expensive. I have them all if you're interested, but that's where you start doing a self inventory. If you will establishing everything that you've done up into now. And what I'm suggesting is that you don't allow who you are professionally, what you've been doing, whether it's for six years, 10 years, 20 years, 30 years, don't let that define who you want to be, what you want to become in the next chapter of your life. If you want to talk about that, I offer a complimentary discovery session. 2030 minutes. I'll offer the link to my calendar in the notes below let's chat about your particular and unique skills, talents, abilities, history, your unique combination of education and experience. No one else out there is like you. So how do you want to use that, that uniqueness, that individuality, to help you to define who you want to become next in your career. Let's talk about it. And if you'd like to do that, make an appointment on my calendar. If you can't find a time on the calendar that works for your schedule, email me@kittyboitnottatgmail.com to let me know the time and date that would work better for you. I'll try to work you in. If you have comments, thoughts, suggestions for future podcast episodes, email me at kitty boy, not@gmail.com. And if you would please review this podcast to help other people find it. I would really appreciate it. If you would do that before you forget about it and go on with the rest of your week. And I would love to talk to you. If you do want to chat about your future and what you might do with it. At this point, I have a wonderful week take care, stay well, and I will see you 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 individual questions as well. So email me at kitty, not at boys, not 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 Boitnott. And this is teachers in transition.