r/Older_Millennials

Went out to dinner with a bunch of old college friends from college last night and realized that out of the larger group of 10 or so friends I had, 5 of us had gone into education after college (art teacher, three grade school teachers, and two high school teachers) and the last of us left the field during Covid.

We all graduated between 06-08 and most of us had left teaching by 2014. I was thinking about my son’s school and found out last year that the only teacher who I would guess is my age was leaving education entirely to go work a sales job for an educational SaaS company.

All the Gen Xer older teachers I worked with while teaching stayed (the pension was pretty good for when they entered the profession) and the Boomers all retired. Couldn’t speak to the younger teachers in my old district since I tapped out after 3 years but at my son’s school, most teachers seem to either be Gen X or recent college grads.

I don’t know if it’s where everyone ended up living in the 2010s that did it (Bay Area California and Massachusetts, which are both obviously HCOL areas where tech salaries ended up impacting the housing economy, etc.) and Covid did drive the very last one of us to throw in towel. Curious to know if any elder millennials are actually still in the field or if we all left for greener pastures?