Retraining as a Teacher: My Slow Motion Leap Home

摘要

There are always reasons not to make a big career change: the worry about starting again; the fear of failure or rejection; the time. effort and patience required; the anxiety about an initial income drop; that upcoming wedding of mine. But I knew that making the leap from tax into teaching was what I was supposed to do with my life. I say leap, but a more appropriate visualisation for my journey would be a triple jump watched in agonising slow motion.