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Then why aren't you teaching? Go spend a few years teaching in a public high school and report back.

Who has the financial ability to switch careers like that on a dime? The only place that such a move is feasible would be a state that doesn't require a degree to teach.

So...Arizona, California, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, Texas, and Wisconsin. Otherwise, pony up the cash for another degree and probably put your other career on hold.

Anyone in the US with a CS degree, or anything technical where they took enough math, would easily be able to get a teaching license in most states. I have a CS degree and was able to get qualified to teach while getting paid as a full time teacher. That was in 2006, and they're even more desperate for teachers today.

That was Colorado. Anyone with a degree can get certified in New Hampshire and then you can easily transfer to other states.

If it's so easy, you should easily be able to pay off any loans you take out to switch to teaching.

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