[brimble]

Damn, how many of us are there?

I'm trying to get mine to switch to project or product management because she'd be awesome at it and has, for years, kept taking on big projects at schools she's worked at (think: leading teams to create and implement new educational systems from scratch, running various extracurriculars, et c) and basically doing one or both of those roles, with great success, while enjoying it. I'm like "you could have half the stress and double or more the pay". She's semi-open to it and I'm continuing to wear her down, but she's likely not going back to teaching next year regardless (may just take a year off—the last four or five years have been really rough)

[joshmlewis]

Same boat here! My wife is leaving her virtual K5 teacher job when school is over in June. She just got her masters in instructional design and has been looking at roles like what has been discussed in this thread.

[shaftway]

This was us 8 years ago. My wife has extra education for special needs kids, and after some bad deals with her school she opened her own business doing in-home services for kids.

Now she's totally burnt out on that, and I'm advocating those roles for her (after a multi-month sabbatical).

[bluesroo]

Wow, that sounds like a carbon copy of the conversation we’ve been having my household.

Good luck to you guys