25 years old and deep in debt

[crazy canuck]

Not sure what a "reading specialist is", though.

Advanced training in helping kids work through their learning disabilities like dyslexia.  But going and getting a degree in that would be silly what with loan debt and all, lolz hahaha suckers.

Getting a degree in that would be pretty smart given the growing demand for such teachers.

[Berkut]

Yeah, if anything I would think this shift from "ZOMG I WANT TO ACTUALIZE MY INNER ANGST THROUGH MUSIC!" to "I want to become a teacher" is a pretty significantly positive adjustment.

[merithyn]

Yeah, if anything I would think this shift from "ZOMG I WANT TO ACTUALIZE MY INNER ANGST THROUGH MUSIC!" to "I want to become a teacher" is a pretty significantly positive adjustment.

She knows she has to do something, and the teaching is at least an almost guaranteed job, especially in that specialty. Can't blame her for trying to figure things out.

Oh wait. This is Languish. Yes you can. 

[Valmy]

Yeah, if anything I would think this shift from "ZOMG I WANT TO ACTUALIZE MY INNER ANGST THROUGH MUSIC!" to "I want to become a teacher" is a pretty significantly positive adjustment.

She knows she has to do something, and the teaching is at least an almost guaranteed job, especially in that specialty. Can't blame her for trying to figure things out.

Oh wait. This is Languish. Yes you can. 

Um most of the posts have been defending her.

[merithyn]

Yeah, if anything I would think this shift from "ZOMG I WANT TO ACTUALIZE MY INNER ANGST THROUGH MUSIC!" to "I want to become a teacher" is a pretty significantly positive adjustment.

She knows she has to do something, and the teaching is at least an almost guaranteed job, especially in that specialty. Can't blame her for trying to figure things out.

Oh wait. This is Languish. Yes you can. 

Um most of the posts have been defending her.

Um half of them have not been.

[crazy canuck]

Yeah, if anything I would think this shift from "ZOMG I WANT TO ACTUALIZE MY INNER ANGST THROUGH MUSIC!" to "I want to become a teacher" is a pretty significantly positive adjustment.

She knows she has to do something, and the teaching is at least an almost guaranteed job, especially in that specialty. Can't blame her for trying to figure things out.

Oh wait. This is Languish. Yes you can. 

Um most of the posts have been defending her.

Shhh, this is Languish.  Dont let the facts get in the way of a good Stazi Cabal rant about how terrible we all are.

[Barrister]

Yeah, if anything I would think this shift from "ZOMG I WANT TO ACTUALIZE MY INNER ANGST THROUGH MUSIC!" to "I want to become a teacher" is a pretty significantly positive adjustment.

She knows she has to do something, and the teaching is at least an almost guaranteed job, especially in that specialty. Can't blame her for trying to figure things out.

Oh wait. This is Languish. Yes you can. 

I can only speak definitively about Canada, but am led to believe the situation is similar in the US - teaching is far from a guaranteed job.  Several of my university buddies wound up in teaching.  They had to struggle for years and years before finding a remotely decent full time position.

[Admiral Yi]

Teaching in general may not be a growth industry, but I'm pretty sure special needs teaching is.

[merithyn]

I can only speak definitively about Canada, but am led to believe the situation is similar in the US - teaching is far from a guaranteed job.  Several of my university buddies wound up in teaching.  They had to struggle for years and years before finding a remotely decent full time position.

Finding teachers with a reading specialty is hard. We had four openings at the Middle School where I worked that we had to place reading specialists. We interviewed six people for those four places, and only one was suitable for the school. (In contrast, the same year we had an opening for a math and a social studies teachers, and we had a plethora of individuals to choose from for those jobs.) The principal ended up having to get an override from the School Board to hire non-reading specialists for the openings as "temp" employees while they either worked on that specialization or we found someone else who was qualified.

[Valmy]

Um half of them have not been.

Sorry, I have an opinion that loads of debt is a really really bad idea.  I hope this is at least the most cost effective way she could find to get that advanced degree.

[merithyn]

Um half of them have not been.

Sorry, I have an opinion that loads of debt is a really really bad idea.  I hope this is at least the most cost effective way she could find to get that advanced degree.

Okay.

[crazy canuck]

I can only speak definitively about Canada, but am led to believe the situation is similar in the US - teaching is far from a guaranteed job.  Several of my university buddies wound up in teaching.  They had to struggle for years and years before finding a remotely decent full time position.

They probably had general teaching certificates or degrees if they were in that position.  Like most general degrees those folks are a dime a dozen.  But people that go on to obtain training for areas in demand are snapped up immediately.

iirc teachers who have degrees in math, science or special needs education are in demand because the supply of people with that training is small relative to the positions available.

[Barrister]

I can only speak definitively about Canada, but am led to believe the situation is similar in the US - teaching is far from a guaranteed job.  Several of my university buddies wound up in teaching.  They had to struggle for years and years before finding a remotely decent full time position.

They probably had general teaching certificates or degrees if they were in that position.  Like most general degrees those folks are a dime a dozen.  But people that go on to obtain training for areas in demand are snapped up immediately.

iirc teachers who have degrees in math, science or special needs education are in demand because the supply of people with that training is small relative to the positions available.

Fair point.  My own mother got some kind of post baccalaureate in special needs education and never had any trouble finding work.

[Syt]

Yeah, if anything I would think this shift from "ZOMG I WANT TO ACTUALIZE MY INNER ANGST THROUGH MUSIC!" to "I want to become a teacher" is a pretty significantly positive adjustment.

She knows she has to do something, and the teaching is at least an almost guaranteed job, especially in that specialty. Can't blame her for trying to figure things out.

Oh wait. This is Languish. Yes you can. 

Wasn't there a study in WaPo or some paper recently that claimed tat teacher education/training in the U.S. is horrible to mediocre for the most part?

[DGuller]

Wasn't there a study in WaPo or some paper recently that claimed tat teacher education/training in the U.S. is horrible to mediocre for the most part?

That's okay, our education system is horrible to mediocre for the most part as well.