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While I wasn't a teacher first, and I'm in a high school, I'm a school counselor. My certification is k-12, so you could have some options if you wanted to try a different age level.

Each age level is really very different, as are the roles that your district assigns to them, but I really love my job (most days ) and am supported in my district by the American School Counseling Association's guidelines, so I am not stuck with a lot of non-counseling duties or any discipline. All levels work on supporting the whole child through personal/social, career and academics.

I do very little classroom guidance and small groups at the HS level, but there is more involvement in those in ES. That said, I'm fairly confident that your classroom management will be minimized. Every day is very, very different!

I left a full-time high school teaching job when LO was born. I teach as an adjunct at a local university and online for area high schools. I am certified K-12 in ESL and French. I have taught both. Ideally if I ever went back to full time teaching in a school I would do elementary leve ESL or possible go back to school and be a reading specialist. What killed me was the hours of prep at home. And I don't know how many extra things elementary teachers have to do but at the high school level being in charge of clubs, extra curriculars, ball game duties, etc I just don't want to do all that anymore!

@HazelEyes: that's great! This lady was awesome but getting so burnt out having to coordinate state testing and not focus on counseling!

I had been tutoring part-time, after school while I was a classroom teacher (special ed), for a test prep/educational consulting company. I got hired recently as a director for programs that the company runs in many high schools in our area. I supervise and support our classroom instructors, help write curricula, and do PD for the schools we work with. Relative to classroom teaching, this is super low stress. It's nice with a toddler at home since I have plenty of energy when I get home. Also, there is very little work that needs to get done at home/on the weekends. The negative is that it's a regular job, meaning 9-5 without any of the winter/spring/summer breaks that teachers get. Although I get to do a lot of school visits and help in classrooms sometimes, transitioning to an office/desk job has been hard because I'm just used to being very active as a teacher.

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