Want Summers Off... Will Teach?

Having graduated, not to long ago (June 2000), from University -- SFU -- and having summer just around the corner, I have been saddened by that fact that I no longer get summers off. So what I can I do to get my summers back?... maybe I should become a teacher

The transition from the academic world to the working world was fairly easy. I consider what I'm doing -- software engineering -- to be pretty simple anyways. Not to mention that while I was in school (full time) I was working about 25 hours per week at a warehouse (doing manual labour),... and full time [although a 4 day work week] during Christmas vaction and summers. So comparatively, software engineering is easy compared to real work.

My motivation for thinking about becoming a teacher has to do with quality of life.... My quality of life. Summers have always been important to me. It is the time that I can relax and do whatever I want. Being now faced with only 2 weeks vacation, has distressed to me.

The one occupation, that I know of, that has summers off is teaching. Currently, only having a BSc (with a Major in Comp Sci) I cannot go and teach at a University or College. But am limited in choice (to lower levels); not that I have a problem with teaching in a High School. ....So, Secordary School (High School) seems like the place to go.

It shouldn't even take me very long to get the extra education that I need. I already have far more than is required to teach Comp Sci in High School. I would only need maybe 3 extra courses to be able to teach Math in High School. And from what I understand, it wouldn't take too long to pick up the courses I need to teach PE (Physical Educations, Gym) in High School. So all in all (with the extra education classes that I'd need) I'd guess that it would take me about a year.

I should mention that I was a tutor for quite a while (both privately and working for a local College)... while I was in school. [I (mainly) taught 6th grade to 2nd year Math; and other stuff, like Physics or Chemistry, when asked.] And I enjoyed tutoring. So this -- teaching -- would be something that I would like doing.

(Not to mention that I would not be as restricted in what I can do on my own time. Due to non-competative clauses in my contract.)

So it is something for me to think about. I was planning to go back to school anyways -- for my Masters -- but I guess I might be going back sooner than I thought (... I planned to work for at least 2 years before going for my Masters). I think I'll go talk to some of the academic advisors, at the University I went to, to find out exactly how long it would take me; and then see if I can get my warehouse-job back to support myself while in school. (I haven't seen any part-time Computer jobs around here... in BC, Canada.)

Anyways, this is my diary entry (here at Kuro5hin). (My first actually.) I don't know if anyone really reads these things (here at Kuro5hin), but if anyone has any comments or advise, I'd love to hear it.