Education, Training & Academia
Teaching and producing knowledge. Honest about the economics: school teaching pays modestly nearly everywhere, and academia is a much narrower funnel than it appears.
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School Teaching
Classroom teaching. Secure and meaningful; be clear-eyed about pay.
1 careerAcademia & Research
University teaching and research, and the odds of a permanent post.
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Teaching students with additional needs. Consistently short of qualified people.
not yet writtenCorporate Training & Instructional Design
Teaching adults inside organisations. Pays considerably better than school teaching.
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Sideways from here
The neighbouring fields. Most people who end up happy in one of these arrived from somewhere else entirely.
- Medicine & Clinical Care
- Nursing & Allied Health
- Diagnostics, Laboratory & Public Health
- Biological & Life Sciences
- Physical & Chemical Sciences
- Earth, Environment & Climate
- Mathematics, Statistics & Actuarial Science
- Software & Computing
- Data, AI & Machine Learning
- Cybersecurity & Information Assurance
- Civil, Structural & Geotechnical Engineering
- Mechanical, Manufacturing & Materials Engineering
- Electrical, Electronic & Control Engineering
- Chemical & Process Engineering
- Energy, Power & Resources
- Aerospace & Aviation
- Maritime, Transport & Supply Chain
- Architecture, Planning & Built Environment
- Skilled Trades & Industrial Maintenance
- Law & Legal Services
- Finance, Banking & Investment
- Accounting, Audit & Tax
- Business, Management & Consulting
- Economics, Policy & Development
- Government, Diplomacy & Public Service
- Defence, Security & Emergency Response
- Media, Journalism & Communications
- Design, Creative & Applied Arts
- Psychology, Social Work & Human Services