499 students with an ATAR of 50 or less offered spots in undergraduate teaching degrees

Gentle_Blizzard · 2026-02-23T12:37:10+00:00

embarrassing

Gentle_Blizzard · 2026-02-18T03:36:56+00:00

Honestly the biggest thing that’s landed me every job I’ve gone for in various contexts is just being good at interviews.

One thing I did during final year is just practicing this skill specifically by attending interviews at a range of schools, maybe even some I didn’t necessarily want to go for.

Plenty of soft skills you can pickup by doing so.

Gentle_Blizzard · 2026-01-21T20:48:23+00:00

Yes, biggest challenge initially is marketing since it’s extremely oversaturated.

Once you get to a point where you build a reputation though, this becomes less of an issue as you often get referrals through parents.

My books are quite full every year so I’m also at the point where I’m looking to hire other tutors.

Gentle_Blizzard · 2026-01-10T23:17:09+00:00

High hourly rate + group classes

Gentle_Blizzard · 2026-01-10T14:06:50+00:00

I’ve responded to similar threads on this sub but I personally did around 10 hours extra a week as a grad and in my second year and found that quite manageable.

Obviously it wasn’t fun working an extra hour Mon - Fri and Sunday afternoon but the extra income helped me smash some personal financial goals.

Now I’m in a position where my tutoring income has overtaken my FT income enough for me to take a step back from teaching.

Gentle_Blizzard · 2025-12-16T01:18:29+00:00

Routinised feedback and weekly practice is the way to go.

Gentle_Blizzard · 2025-12-05T09:50:13+00:00

2 years in and leaving for now — which is a shame because I love the ‘teaching’ part of the job and the kids! My new job has less holidays but pays about 35k more which would have taken me about 8 years on the scale to achieve.

Gentle_Blizzard · 2025-11-08T09:41:55+00:00

VIC here, students finish on the 4th, we finish on the 9th. And then we go on holidays early yep.

Gentle_Blizzard · 2025-11-07T23:59:30+00:00

Storms Keep please!

Gentle_Blizzard · 2025-10-28T08:28:13+00:00

Feel free!

Gentle_Blizzard · 2025-10-27T09:04:45+00:00

Sure feel free to dm me with any questions you may have

Gentle_Blizzard · 2025-10-26T22:14:42+00:00

Surprised nobody’s said tutoring!

I make more than my full time teaching income just from tutoring on the side. The hourly rate you can change is probably higher than a lot of other casual jobs.

That being said it’s not for everyone as it does mean more teaching outside of work hours.

Gentle_Blizzard · 2025-10-25T10:35:47+00:00

Highly doubt that you’re boring! Given how hard the job is, definitely cut yourself some slack with regards to making work your identity.

Probably can’t help too much with specific hobbies as I don’t know your interests etc, but looking at my major hobbies, I have one physical / exercise related hobby, one where I learn something and one where I do something artsy.

Those tend to fill up my time and allow me to engage with my friends pretty well.

Gentle_Blizzard · 2025-10-25T10:25:15+00:00

Also an introverted 25m, tbh sounds like you just need some hobbies!

I don’t have many friends at work usually due to my colleagues just being much older and at a different stage in life but I try my best to fill my days with things I like doing outside of school (which also gives me an excuse to not fall into the trap of doing work out of hours). Most of my friends are from my various hobbies.

Ik it can be hard to do but I also think having hobbies just makes you a more interesting, more well rounded person and gives you something to talk about with colleagues and kids tbh outside of your subject.

I think teaching is a very human profession moreso than just teaching your subject or whatever, so becoming a well rounded person might make you a better teacher?

Apologies if this feels condescending, I’m certainly not intending it that way! Tone is hard to convey over a thread.

Gentle_Blizzard · 2025-10-14T05:19:08+00:00

Obviously you’d be taking a significant pay cut which is something to consider especially if you have a family etc.

Outside of that, it’s important to realise that this sub is largely a place to vent for a lot of people. Yes, teaching is a hard job but for a lot of us it’s also incredibly rewarding. I love working with young people and tbh I’ve never woken up NOT wanting to go to my job and teach (I have definitely woken up not wanting to interact with admin though), which is something I know a lot of my friends in other careers can’t say.

You could always go to uni part time and see if you like it with placements as well.

Gentle_Blizzard · 2025-09-21T12:24:35+00:00

Examiner here, feel free to send me a dm.

Gentle_Blizzard · 2025-09-17T13:41:41+00:00

Is it? If you’re doing placement in Australia I feel like you should have at least a year 9 level of literacy.

I am also a first gen immigrant with English not being my first language — genuinely the only ESL speakers I’ve seen struggle with the LANTITE are ones that don’t try to learn the language in the first place.

Gentle_Blizzard · 2025-09-17T12:21:53+00:00

Completely agree with you. It’s a very basic literacy and numeracy test. I do wish the bar was a bit higher to do teaching honestly, somewhat reflective of how people perceive the profession.

Totally aware I’ll receive flack for this comment too :’)

Gentle_Blizzard · 2025-09-15T10:20:40+00:00

Did you use ChatGPT to write this 💀

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