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Re:Scratch is a big deal by urthor on Saturday July 16, 2022 @04:10PM (#32121498)
If I may ask:

Why former?

Re:Scratch is a big deal by _benj on Saturday July 16, 2022 @05:18PM (#32122072)
Not op but maybe compensation and everything else outside of teaching?

I used to teach computers/math to 8th graders and while teaching is beautiful school politics, terrible benefits, dealing with patents, among others things made the job of teaching incredibly difficult and draining

Re:Scratch is a big deal by jms429 on Sunday July 17, 2022 @07:00AM (#32125798)
Burn out. Teaching is a job that is never "done", and expectations from management and parents are constantly set higher and higher. Especially around IT. I lost count of the number of times I asked for help from management and got told "but you are so good at computers".

Tried the startup thing, my product crashed and burned, work for a charity now.