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Advice on changing jobs and moving
Hi there! My question is more so for people who hire teachers, but any advice is appreciated! This is my second year teaching full-time. Before this, I worked in a tutoring center and I taught ESL part-time. But, I've had two years of experience as a classroom teacher. Both of these, however, have been at different schools.
I left the first school because I was promised a raise and it was not granted to me. Normally, I don't make decisions based off of finances only, but my salary was less than $30,000 and I live in a city where the cost of living is relatively high. I am now at a school that I like everything is great. I really enjoy my job. But, I want to leave the city because it is much much too expensive for me. At my previous jobs, the tutoring center and ESL job, I was there for 2 years at each. But, I was only one year at each of these schools full time.
I'm wondering if this would be an issue if I move. Would my employment history not look good because I was only at these schools for one year? On the other hand, however, moving is a pretty understandable reason for not being able to stay in your previous place of employment. Also, I would have glowing reviews from that leadership.
Any help and wisdom from experience is appreciated!
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I recently gave you my thoughts on the Mom living off of you. Is this the main reason you want to leave, leaving her behind? You don't have to make a drastic move if that is the case. You once talked of interest in California. My guess is that you are trying to find a place to plant yourself, where the cost of living isn't outrageously higher than the basic earning scale and an area you like for what ever reason. As for being a short term at both teaching jobs, it could very well be due to down sizing you out and having to find another place so that shouldn't be a red flag, not unless you have lets say 5 different past jobs all lasting 6 mos or so. Then that is an obvious red flag to an employer.
As for what states or cities to start looking for a job in, Lets say that you know you would miss ocean if living somewhere landlocked or without any major water source near by like a large lake or one of the coasts. I stayed a few months with my sister in AZ and although I didn't mind the weather, I found I missed being able to see water. Even something like this should be taken into account. So make a list of what is important to you. Maybe you would rather live small town style but be near a major highway so it is not far to big shopping areas or to go for entertainment. If living by coastal water is one, then you would do a search on line for states that are anywhere along the coast whether west, east or the south and find a list of states where the cost of living vs the median income is not a huge gap. Years ago, my husband was thinking of looking to see if there was anyplace better than where we were with the amenities we did not want to give up. The state we're in is not a problem, however for retirement, we will likely move out of big city and go to a more quiet smaller town but not searching yet. So this information is out there on the internet. I haven't done a search recently so I can't tell you where to look, just put in a search for states with lower cost of living vs higher median income. Of those, you then choose states by ocean water if that's what you want. If climate is important to you, look at the for the list of states narrowed down by the first criteria. I think the list I saw also had data for the general age group for towns and cities because some towns got more elderly retiring there and if you are a nurse or caregiver, you'd want to live near a great source of jobs simply by general population age. Since you've taught ESL, you could search of places where the concentration of people from another country is higher. There are areas in my state where there is a higher concentration of Hispanics, Asians, and a town where mostly people of Slavic countries have settled. So you then look to see if there are any job for ESL in that area. Once you have narrowed down to a couple places, you might want to make a trip to the area to see if you really do like it before making the job search and doing the major move.
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Jumping from job to job can say alot about the person whose resume is being looked at. In your case being young and these jobs in the past were right out of college; most Human Resource Managers will over look it. Also being a teacher whose job is dependant on budgets you would be last in first out in any job shrinkage from budget cuts.
Question if you like the school and the job you have now whby do you have to change jobs. You can move out of the city and into the suburbs and commute. My niece is doing just that having taken a teaching job in one county but has moved further away in to another county for the lower cost of living.
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