Note: This article is part of the Broke Salaryman series. A teacher wrote the article based on her experiences and it has been edited it for style.
In 2007, I quit my sales job selling science lab equipment to become a teacher.
It was a career move my younger self could never have predicted.
I had done relief-teaching in the past, so I knew teaching could be challenging.
I even told myself it was the last thing I’d do.
But three years in the private sector had left me disillusioned.
I sought purpose and a meaningful career.
That’s why I took that big pay cut.
And also why I humbled myself and went back to NIE to be a student again.
Like all teachers, I started out bright-eyed and inspired to make a difference.
Here’s what I wished I knew before taking the plunge.
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