Like other teachers, Florence decided one day to say goodbye to national education to find better working conditions elsewhere, not without difficulty.
We often hear that teachers are very lucky to be civil servants, and to have all the advantages that go with it. Employment safety, many school holidays, guaranteed retirement … on paper, everything seems perfect. But the reality is often very different. Florence, 32, knows something about it, she was a school teacher at the Rennes Academy and chained missions for national education. “I have never had a fixed job for six years. I taught as well in very small kindergarten section, with children of 2 and a half years, as in CM2, with students aged 10-11”, she confides to us.
As with many teachers at the start of a career, the teaching profession seems beautiful and meaningful. It is also the image that Florence had had for a long time. “What I liked was the relationship with the students, but also with their parents. Help, to exchange, to transmit: this is what makes this profession so rich. I am patiently patient, so I liked to teach, but also to learn from others, whether it is my colleagues or my students. It is a beautiful job, deeply human, but it is on the means that he really fishes. Over -worked classes, students with disabilities, Missing chairs and tables from the start of the school year … These are almost harmless things, but once accumulated, they simply prevent doing its job properly “, she underlines.
By force, Florence wanted other things. She therefore asked her employer for possibilities, “Either for a part -time or to have availability”, which was systematically refused. The drop of too much for this school teacher. “I couldn’t go just to do something half well, when I would have liked to do it really well”, she admits. It was then that the idea of conversion emerged. She took four years to find what she wanted to do, because as she said: “When we resign from national education, we lose our competition and we are struck off from executives, so we have to think about it”. Florence then dared, she first set out to availability for “follow-up of spouse” then she then resigned to do what was going to become her new job: being self-employed.
“I started by training in SEO web writing, I created my self-business, then I branched off towards the podcast and helping teachers in retraining. Today, I have a lot of caps: that of editor, podcaste and accompanying assistance. And for nothing in the world, I will not come back to my old job, that is certainly. she admits. So certainly, she no longer has a fixed salary that falls every month, nor the school holidays, but Florence won much more when leaving national education.
She is more fulfilled on a daily basis, even if being a head of his own business is not easy. She doesn’t regret anything, and above all, she noticed, thanks to her podcast “Before I was a teacher“, That she is not the only one to have dared to convert. Among all the former teachers she saw passing to her microphone, one of them particularly marked her. “When you are a teacher and that we want to convert, we sometimes complain about our working conditions, and often there are people who tell us ‘you only have to go to work at the factory’. One day, I interviewed Anne, a former German teacher who just resigned to make cagettes in the factory. It was physically hard, but she confided to me that she had found mental peace. Proof that you can find happiness everywhere by working!
