[SoloAJ]

Misfire,

In the state of Illinois, you wouldn't get hired out of college with a masters. Because the pay scale factors in both experience and education, no one would hire me coming out of college with 0 experience and a masters. It would be to their benefit to just hire someone with a bachelor's and 0 experience...less money.

It is becuase they're unionized (or whatever).

Basically as a teacher in the state of Illinois, you get a job, then get more education, which gets you more money.

So my tentative plan is to teach high school until I get my masters, then see if I can get a night class or summer class at the community college to test the waters.


That all said, I am going to be risking quite a bit if I make this switch. I will have nothing to fall back on and effectively lock myself into 1.5 years of classes and then a semester of student teaching to get my degree. If for some reason, which I really don't expect, I hate teaching...that student teaching to get my degree will be a huge hassle.

I am thinking it is worth risking gaining $10,000 to find out.