Life after teaching

Dear Paisley and Plaid (are you one or two?),

I majored in English, and by your erudite commentary and precise, exquisite style (and lots of time to blog) I suspect that you, too, may be an English major. I recently resigned my position teaching eighth-grade speech and rhetoric because of, well, it was the principal of the thing!

What do I do now?

Well, English Major,

Here are some jobs with real possiblilites for people like us — lovers of literature and all things written or verbal. Starting pay may not be up to scale with what you are used to as a teacher and therefore the greatest influence on the nation’s future, but as they told us in Intro. to Education I,, II, and III,  ”Money isn’t everything!”

Many of these TOP TEN jobs can be done concurrently.  Good Luck!

Bohemian artiste — with a perpetual scarf — make commentary on the bourgeois masses
Novelist writing from personal experience — make that a novella-ist – you only taught eighth grade
Ghost writer for people with experiences
Elopement planner — It’s much more than just load up and go!
Student at  Online Law School — Go OLS!
Guru — field TBD
Consultant  — all trades (How hard can it be? You’ve read Dostoevsky.)
Amish clothing designer
Torch singer – You enter, late of course, 9:20, sing, sleep till noon
Academic advisor –pass out free t-shirt s–  ”For Heaven’s Sake Major in Computer Science”
Mansion sitter — 15,000 sq. ft. and up

Out of the question list. You should stay away from this field:
Anything medical including dental work — the sounds, the smells, the sick people, mouth insides, nurses

And be sure to check out this link to 25 very odd jobs that you might pursue as well –
http://blog.sixwise.com/blogs/vaszily-brian/archive/2007/03/08/the-world-s-25-oddest-jobs.aspx