My wife is in a similar situation. She's a middle-school teacher at a public school in a state that doesn't value public education. While she still loves teaching, her experience mirrors your's in regards to overwork, attrition, etc. For a job that should get off at 3pm, she routinely works all evening on grading, lesson planning and other admin tasks.
We also live in an area where teachers are poorly compensated relative to the cost of living. I'm well paid as a software engineer, which just makes her feel worse about the value of her career in teaching when she works longer hours than I do.
We've talked about her leaving teaching at the end of the school year with the plan to get her PhD so she can teach at a college level.
I'm trying to get mine to switch to project or product management because she'd be awesome at it and has, for years, kept taking on big projects at schools she's worked at (think: leading teams to create and implement new educational systems from scratch, running various extracurriculars, et c) and basically doing one or both of those roles, with great success, while enjoying it. I'm like "you could have half the stress and double or more the pay". She's semi-open to it and I'm continuing to wear her down, but she's likely not going back to teaching next year regardless (may just take a year off—the last four or five years have been really rough)
Same boat here! My wife is leaving her virtual K5 teacher job when school is over in June. She just got her masters in instructional design and has been looking at roles like what has been discussed in this thread.
This was us 8 years ago. My wife has extra education for special needs kids, and after some bad deals with her school she opened her own business doing in-home services for kids.
Now she's totally burnt out on that, and I'm advocating those roles for her (after a multi-month sabbatical).
Yeah my wife is a math teacher, and getting a PhD in Math is no joke. I honestly have no idea what this process will look like. But we don't have kids yet so it's now or never to make big life changes haha
Not OP, but I'm in a similar situation and a lover of App Annie's product. Are you hiring only in Vancouver or is the role open to remote? (US, Pacific Timezone)
This sounds interesting! I have direct experience with Twilio in video/audio streaming apps. Would love to hear more about your project. My email is in my profile.
This idea was largely inspired by the way Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@ocasio2018) uses Instagram. She’s a US Congresswoman and has 2M followers on instagram. In her IG stories she often uses an app called “Clipomatic” that does much the same thing as my app, but lacks a few key features which I believe makes my app a significant upgrade. Clipomatic doesn’t let you import videos from your library, and it forces you to use “cute” themed message bubbles with your captions.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is just one example. Plenty of influencers use Clipomatic, and others use Adobe Premiere to add captions.
So that demonstrated significant market validation to me, so I took this idea and talked to a few "influencers" that I know. Photographers and YouTube creators and such—people with 1 to 10k followers, so not huge accounts, but larger than most. They’ve helped me refine the idea, and some have tested it one their own accounts where it’s gotten positive feedback.
There's also a service called Rev.com (rev.com/caption) that charges per minute to add captions to videos. Since humans transcribe your video manually, they also have a longer turn around. I've seen several brands on Instagram use this, but I believe Caption This is a cheaper, faster alternative with the a high quality result.
I’m an experienced React Native app developer and consultant. I’ve worked for startups and agencies all over the States, and many well-known companies in the bay area. If your company is working on a React Native app, I’d love to get in touch!
As another anecdote in favor of homeschooling, as a kid I was homeschooled in a small town in north Idaho and I believe I've escaped all the stereotypes of the awkward homeschooled adult. Quite the contrary, I'm a very successful app developer. And even though I work remotely I have a great social circle.
Of the childhood friends I still keep in touch with, I know several other who were homeschooled. None of them are awkward, antisocial or unsuccessful.
Hey there HN, thanks for taking a look at my site!
I made ProjectEthos.co for two purposes:
- to try to encourage people to share information about environmentally (and socially) responsible companies.
- to call out those that aren't.
When I want to do research on a brand, I have all these questions like "What does this company's supply chain look like?" and "Are they using sustainable manufacturing techniques?". But as a consumer, I never know where to find this kind of information.
So I made ProjectEthos.co as a platform where people could do just that: share links about companies/products. You can also follow products and discussions to get a personalized feed :D
Thoughts and feedback are welcome! This is the first full-stack app I've released to the public, so it's likely to have some rough edges...
Yes, that's fine, we already have foreign members who don't speak any Spanish. We do everything in English and would be awesome to have a native speaker in the team :)
looks like your site is broken. The front page of 'sourceress.co' just says 'Hello'. If you need someone who can fix it email me at jpbrennecke@gmail.com ;)
We also live in an area where teachers are poorly compensated relative to the cost of living. I'm well paid as a software engineer, which just makes her feel worse about the value of her career in teaching when she works longer hours than I do.
We've talked about her leaving teaching at the end of the school year with the plan to get her PhD so she can teach at a college level.