I am feeling pretty detached at the moment. Figure I would use this space to think aloud.
I have been fighting with admin at my school for proper support for me as a teacher and for help fixing a broken program for my students. I got laid off effective the end of the school year. Think it might be because I was a pain in the ass, but I don't know for sure. I wasn't doing a great job because they overloaded me. More different classes than most teachers. Shit support.
Covid money ran out, they had to lay off some of the conditionally certified teachers and I was one of them. The timing was just... all my complaints, I they were making me cover a position that was vacant while doing my regular teaching, and the students were missing out. I don't think I could prove it but it feels like they got rid of me because I was not satisfied with their answers.
I can't bring myself to finish getting my teacher certification. I'd have to go out of county to teach.
I worked 10 years with the homeless, burnt out and fucked it up. Then 2 years working for a law firm supposedly helping people and figure out its just bullshit, helping people was incidental and barely helped. Worked for the cops supposedly helping addicts in person, they just wanted me to do data entry. No idea what I should do.
It took a lot of courage to get myself to try being a teacher. 3 years at the schools and now I fucking again have to figure out what to do all over again.
And I have to go into the school for over a month and pretend everything is okay. Fuck I hate this.
Electrician or plumbing. You'll make money, and you'll help people not burn down or flood their house.
Solid jobs. Robot and AI resistant. Necessary and people will pay well for your work which they can't do without, particularly plumbing.
I've advised plenty of students to go doing that path for basicaly the same reasons the other posters said. I'm not above that sort of work, I just don't know, it just doesn't seem appealing to me.
Honestly the work is pretty fun. I'd do it if I was physically able. It can be hard but it's never boring. If you like working with people though then yeah you probably won't like it unless you work on big jobs.