What to do after art education degree?
Exactly what the title says. I have a BFA (fine arts bachelor degree) and a MAT in k-12 art. I’ve been teaching for 4 years now. My years vary wildly in how difficult they have been. My first year was actually pretty good, with one hell class. My second year was all around awful (I blame the admin for this because between my first and second year 20 teachers left the school). I transferred and my first year in the new school was pretty good with one hellish class and this year has been really tough all around. Everyone in the building is having issues with these kids. Not having the ability to predict how my year is going to go has me feeling like I really want to leave K-12 art education. I’m thinking of returning to get my MFA to become a professor potentially. I am just so tired of going to work and coming home mentally fatigued every blessed day. It’s too much to have little hormonal monsters that don’t care about my class (and simply have to have it to graduate) make my life and the life of the kids that do care about school miserable. (I teach high school freshman mainly. And the district has my job on the chopping block as is because of budget cuts)
For additional context: I don’t have any student loans to pay off and have looked into fully funded or very low tuition institutions to get my MFA at. Just wanted some weigh in here. What do I do?? What have other visual art educators done post-teaching?