Why Leaving Teaching One Year Ago Was the Best Decision
8 min readJul 31, 2020
One year ago, I made a courageous choice to leave my comfortable, tenured teaching position to start a new career.
And it wasn’t because of the students, like most would assume. No, the students were the best part of my eight years in the classroom and I miss them every day in my new job as a business consultant (adults are pretty boring compared to teenagers).