As far as potential jobs go, I think teachers salaries are looking pretty good.
I know of a young man who went into teaching, kind of floating through college, taught high school science of some sort and decided after 2 years to go back to school and recently graduated from medical school.
You have to like the aspect of teaching of going back over the same stuff, year after year. I think that doesn't suit a lot of gifted people unless you get to do research and write papers at the college level.
One big problem is union rules. A math major may not get a math teaching job is they don't have the math creditation. The math creditation has nothing to do with knowing math, just how to teach the math. I found this out when I found out the math coach in our school had no math background but she got the math creditation. Is that ridiculous? I bet they don't have that problem in Finland where they score a lot higher.
Ren
