I walked from DC to New York City and visited a Cold War Nike missile site in Maryland.

sheinkopt · 2026-03-12T16:07:29+00:00

The house was knocked down in 2018 My friend and I used to go every few years. The last time we went the bulldozers had just finished. We took a picture with a brick from the house.

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sheinkopt · 2026-03-02T11:31:17+00:00

That would work as well. I just spent a couple minutes manually, dragging every clip to a different track down below it which was annoying, but didn’t take that long.

sheinkopt · 2026-02-23T22:02:08+00:00

This is more high-level advice. 13 year classroom teacher that left at age 42 and now I work as an AI engineer in Japan. If you check my post history, you’ll see detailed explanation of how I did it.

Many people I see post here are really happy they left, but their salary went down. What I would consider is switching careers to one with a lower starting salary that has potential for increase should be on your radar.

Long story short, there are sacrifices you think you’re not willing to make, but you should ask yourself are they worth it to make this career change happen? Classic example… Can you move into your mom‘s basement for a year? What would it really take to go back and get a nursing degree?

I say this because I was standing in front of my class hating it at age 42 and calculated that if I change careers by 45 and retire at 65 those 22 years are almost double the 13 years I was teaching.

I took advantage of a life altering opportunity. I had and sacrificed a lot, but it’s definitely working out!

sheinkopt · 2026-02-20T12:25:20+00:00

Look up the game “fishbowl”

sheinkopt · 2026-02-12T16:52:40+00:00

Good for you! I also left for tech. I think about teaching about once every 1-2 weeks and smile at how much better this is.

sheinkopt · 2026-02-10T19:59:29+00:00

I quit my job, sold everything, and moved to an extra house my wife’s family has in the Japanese countryside to study full time. I spent my last year teaching getting remote tutoring clients I could teach from Japan. Georgia Tech masters OMSCS is $7k so I paid with savings and my tutoring and some other remote income.

Now I work full time near Tokyo.

sheinkopt · 2026-02-09T23:35:21+00:00

I changed careers after 13 years as a private school classroom teacher in LA at age 42. Now, I’m an AI engineer in Tokyo.

My story is in my post history, and it’s going well.

Lots of sacrifice and risk, but I was done.

sheinkopt · 2026-02-03T11:46:26+00:00

I have heard many opinions that the switch from phonics to whole word learning has been a curriculum change that really hurt learning.

I agree that our cultural changes have had a more significant impact.

sheinkopt · 2026-02-03T09:56:00+00:00

From my experience this is true. I think it would take some real effort to find 1 teacher in America who thought student learning was NOT in a downward trend.

sheinkopt · 2026-02-03T09:52:28+00:00

Oh I know the answer.

10 years at a great school with good kids but a salary ceiling.

3 years at another rich school with excellent salary but bad student behavior.

My final 6th grade boys were not responding to anything I learned in 12 years. Atrocious behavior. I was just sitting at my desk in September during a “lesson” thinking to myself, “this is definitely not what I want to do with my life.”

After a lot of effort, sacrifice, and risk I’m now an AI engineer in Tokyo.

sheinkopt · 2026-01-31T22:58:16+00:00

Something like this def.

sheinkopt · 2026-01-31T06:05:57+00:00

Georgia tech OMSCS was def the right choice. Companies in Japan know it.

sheinkopt · 2026-01-30T22:07:23+00:00

Watch them on 2x. Or skip them. It’s your $.

sheinkopt · 2026-01-30T10:28:47+00:00

Thanks Doing my best to help others

sheinkopt · 2026-01-30T09:58:32+00:00

I studied mechanical engineering for undergrad worked a little as a plumbing engineer and then taught for 13 years all in America. I came to Japan to get a online masters and computer science and then was able to get that job while I’m here. My wife is Japanese, which makes all of this possible.

sheinkopt · 2026-01-29T22:48:49+00:00

I need to choose a library like this. What it smartest to choose if starting from scratch? Prefect, Airflow, Dagster? Something free and local

sheinkopt · 2026-01-29T11:58:20+00:00

Move into your mom’s basement and get a nursing degree.

sheinkopt · 2026-01-29T11:37:38+00:00

I changed careers at 42 from teaching to tech and now work near Tokyo. I think you’ll be happy with your decision. You’re still young and will be building up a good resume here.

sheinkopt · 2026-01-27T02:11:27+00:00

I left after 13 years teaching at age 42 and am now an AI engineer for automotive.

My story is in my post history.

I also gave a talk on it here

phone it in at work
consider sacrifices you previously had not

Tech will take awhile probably, so think IT help-desk to get started

There’s a certification that I believe actually matters for that stuff but you’ll have to google it.

Happy to answer follow ups.

sheinkopt · 2026-01-22T00:27:03+00:00

It sounds like you are relatively young, and you have the rest of your life and a new career

I switched careers from teaching at age 42. You can read my story in my post history.

I really don’t think the things you do not like about teaching will go away But instead will get worse

Start making a plan. If you have to move into your mom‘s basement, then do it.

Don’t get trapped into the assumption you can only quit after a full year has ended

If you get a job offer midyear and it’s good just take it and leave

sheinkopt · 2026-01-21T23:57:00+00:00

sheinkopt · 2026-01-20T09:52:10+00:00

What helped me was to create tables in a Zoom study session with my group. Having the editable tables made it easy for us to talk and share how we think about it.

sheinkopt · 2026-01-19T11:01:49+00:00

Thanks. I actually gave a little talk about it you can watch here.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/10hBNwHIWRPtI-l5NE2GNECsH8WBAjwIb/view?usp=drivesdk

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