MemphisCaliCook

The Teaching field is almost impossible to get into out here in So. California. I had a 2nd grade today and met another substitute that was subbing for a teacher stuck in Europe (Ash Crisis). Well she has been subbing longer than I have. I have been subbing for almost 2 school years, she is in her 3rd year and like me is thinking of quitting the job for a while. We both graduated at the exact moment the economy started plummeting, and I thought a year or two at most and things would start improving. Not the case, we learned that more inservice days, informal testing days, and other personal days will be cut from the teachers school year next year, along with added furlough days. All of that equals LESS subbing days that myself and other fellow subs will be able to have (on top of this yrs cuts). Therefore I am considering looking into preschool work or the such because at almost 26 I feel like I should be having a stable job, benefits, and having that 401K going. I hate leaving the profession though because the second the market opens up, I hope to be somewhere near the front or more likely the middle of the line. Plus the CA Credential is good for 5 years before it EXPIRES! I am in my 2nd year now and am starting to wonder how the state is going to handle the thousands of teaching credentials expiring in just a short while just from the fellow teachers I graduated with, let alone the tens of thousands of others all over the state that have graduated since then.