Today I was hired for my first teaching job at 49!
I wanted to teach HS History when I graduated high school, but real life had other plans. Two years ago my wife was making enough money that I could leave my job in health insurance. I decided to substitute and see if the desire was still there. Two weeks later I enrolled in Teachers of Tomorrow (I have a BS in Business Management). At the start of last year's school year I was hired as a Junior High SPED assistant. I fell in love with the Junior High. I put in the work and waited for a position to open up. I also took the Social Studies and Earth Science Praxis (I studied meteorology in college, and have a computer science background). This spring a 6th grade science and 8th grade History job opened up at my school and I was offered the science job! On top of that, my oldest daughter will be in 6th next year and my youngest in two years. I know I'm super lucky, but I had a really good rapport with the administration and put in a lot of hard work. So now I'll be a first time science teacher at almost 50!