Becoming a Teacher

LakeClouds
Wed, 23 May 2012 09:54:25 +0000

Teaching pros:

Summers off and shorter days

Stable employment (after tenure and gaining some seniority - layoff risk high early on)

Instrinsic rewards of teaching others
Teaching cons:

May not be a lot of openings in history - more in STEM

Hard to move to a new district so lack of mobility

Can be tedious doing same thing year-after-year

Working in a union environment

Law pros:

Can be lucrative if in a top-firm or if you build a good practice

Work can be interesting depending on field
Law cons:

Hard to build a practice

Expense of getting a degree

Few openings in top-firms - have to be tops at a top school

Long hours - burn-out of “lucky” to get in a top-firm

Lot of un/under employed lawyers