Did the Virus Force You into Teaching?

How to make the best of suddenly becoming a teacher

Jordan Fraser
6 min readJul 14, 2020
Photo by Patricia Prudente on Unsplash

Now more than ever before, people are being forced out of the jobs they’d rather be doing, and into jobs they’re not ready for.

This is because COVID-19 has crippled their industry, and they need to make a radical jump into an industry that isn’t dying if they’re planning on paying their rent for the foreseeable future.

As certain countries continue to react slowly to the pandemic, entire industries are grinding to a halt, including the entertainment industry.

The majority of my twenties were spent working performance jobs, and as a result, most of my friends are entertainers in some capacity.
This means that I have to watch as friend after friend lose their job and their dreams. Because of this, many of them are being forced into teaching roles several years before they’d planned on making the transition.

Most entertainers become teachers eventually, it’s a career choice that feels like a natural move from industry professional to backseat driver.

But ready or not, an entire army of teachers are entering the online space with absolutely no idea of what they’re doing. They know their industry, but they don’t know how to captivate a group of…

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