Changing Careers at 40

srstowers
5 min readJul 11, 2021
Image by Jill Wellington from Pixabay

For fifteen years, I taught high school English and spent a lot of time dreaming of doing something else. Some days, I dreamed of doing anything else. It wasn’t that I hated teaching. I hated a lot of the stuff that goes along with teaching, but the actual teaching was sometimes quite enjoyable. And I was very, very good at my job.

But then, at 40, I moved to another state to be near my twin sister. You know that scene at…

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srstowers

high school English teacher, cat nerd, owner of Grading with Crayon, and author of Biddleborn.