I was also a teacher, teaching in primary schools in the UK for around a decade and focusing on music and creative enrichment. It was a rewarding and busy job, where I met and worked with many great people. Ultimately though, I felt that I had reached a far as I could with the job, and the national political landscape for education meant that I knew I would be asked to do things I wouldn't agree with or be able to approach positively.
More pertinently, during a short career break, I had started building a travel blog and was asked by musician friends to help with their digital offering. This led to some time doing both jobs as I felt my way through becoming a web developer.
Eventually I got the chance to try a full time job at an agency (I literally changed a few words on my linkedin profile and, hey presto!) and a couple of years later I'm a dev at a great fintech company, working in React.
I'd say I haven't looked back but of course that's not true, even this week I was at my daughter's school demoing at a STEM careers fair, but it was nice to be able to walk away without the books to mark!
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I was also a teacher, teaching in primary schools in the UK for around a decade and focusing on music and creative enrichment. It was a rewarding and busy job, where I met and worked with many great people. Ultimately though, I felt that I had reached a far as I could with the job, and the national political landscape for education meant that I knew I would be asked to do things I wouldn't agree with or be able to approach positively.
More pertinently, during a short career break, I had started building a travel blog and was asked by musician friends to help with their digital offering. This led to some time doing both jobs as I felt my way through becoming a web developer.
Eventually I got the chance to try a full time job at an agency (I literally changed a few words on my linkedin profile and, hey presto!) and a couple of years later I'm a dev at a great fintech company, working in React.
I'd say I haven't looked back but of course that's not true, even this week I was at my daughter's school demoing at a STEM careers fair, but it was nice to be able to walk away without the books to mark!