I also want out of tech; I started 15 years ago as a help desk analyst, now I’m an Engineering Manager. The burn out is real, the golden handcuffs are real and I’m just tired of being in this kind of work, thoroughly sick at what I’m seeing in the tech industry from a career perspective, tired of standups, tired of sprint planning, tired of retros, scrum, “technical recruiters”, the resume skill rat race, interviews, interviewing...[trails off]...
As recently as this morning I was talking to a friend who teaches pre-calc at local high school and tutors part-time independently about potentially making this very career pivot, to the point where I’m legitimately looking at financial aid and scholarships to potentially just go back to school and get a BSc in Maths and Physics so I can go be a school teacher and geek off with kids about science like I do with my nephew whenever I’m babysitting him and we spend hours playing Kerbal Space Program
Uhh my understanding is that, as a teacher, you're mostly policing a bunch of youngsters who are not happy to be in the classroom with you. If you get a couple of pupils who are into what you're teaching it's considered a blessing, otherwise it's squeezing water out of a stone.
Not to mention you can't just teach what you want, you have a program to follow. You will also be judged by various test results, so you can't focus on the few bright people in the class, you have to address the rather long tail of under-performers.
