“What did your husband teach?”
He started out teaching 6th grade in WA, but because WA required 5 years to get a full time certificate and CA didn’t that is why we moved. He also started out teaching 6th grade there but then went into teaching the gifted. High IQ students. While living there he was then able to go back to school and get a Masters degree and became a VP and then a Principal of elementary schools in Sunnyvale, CA.
After 8 years as a principal he got the 50 yr. old itch and decided he wanted to do something different. So we sold our house left the retirement behind except for the part he had contributed (You couldn’t transfer the retirement from state to state) and we went back to WA to start an Instant Print business. After 4 yrs of running the print shop the economy went way down here in 1984-85. We weren’t going to make it on the business only so he was fortunate that there was an opening for the gifted in Pasco. In that gifted program kids from 1st grade up to 6th grade came to the school he was at. 1st graders 1 day a week on up each grade. So he and his aid had to prepare curriculum to fit each grade.
Wow, I’m impressed with both of yours adventurous spirit, starting over with a new career. I’m so sorry it didn’t work out.
I tried teaching, hated it. It’s an awful thing to be stuck in an awful job, looking at many decades of it. I guess that’s how they get teachers to stay, with the pension and medical. It’s a shame cuz many bad teachers that need to leave the profession don’t.