Need a little advice...

[spartyon8]

BigJim would be a great name for a porn star.

Don't teach public school if you need a lot of money. My wife's a teacher...my mid-level hourly construction workers make more than she does...my top guys make way more.

As far as salary, I would choose a public school over a private one such as a Catholic school. Starting teachers in the Catholic school live in poverty, believe me I know.

I love teaching and wouldn't have it any other way. It is very rewarding and everyday is different.

 

[floggerrushmd]

As I have limited experience in the "real world" of job hunting I don't have a lot of input. But biomedical / biotech are the "hot" fields right now. When I went to med school I turned down two jobs paying over $100,000 / yr. My wife is finishing her masters and has a job lined up at a local company for ~$125,000/yr. Get a degree and even as a lab tech you will make more than a teacher. It is exciting work as most of the time you are working on products/processes that the general public will not see for another 10-15 years. It is really the only field I know anything about, but what I have seen was good. Just my $0.02.