Welcome to the Teacher Career Coach podcast with your new host, Elizabeth Sudo.

She started her teaching career in 2014. She found she needed a career change after all the changes that pandemic brought to the teaching world.

So she transitioned outside of the classroom into an administrative assistant role and now works as an operations manager for a tech startup.

Get ready for discussions on all things related to teacher transitions, interview prep,

addressing burnout in the classroom, and so much more.

Here's your host, Elizabeth Sudo.

Today, I interview Erin Hur.

Erin is a customer success manager for a global telecommunications company with a strong

background in education.

Prior to her role as a customer success manager, she taught middle school science for 16 years.

She transitioned from teaching to the corporate world in

2003, at a time when the tech market was very unstable. Her adaptability, perseverance, and

tenacity helped her stand out in a saturated job market. Join us today to hear about perseverance in Erin's job search and journey.

Hope you enjoy. Welcome, Erin. Hi, thanks so much for having me. We're super excited to get to know you

today, and we like to start this off by hearing about how you got into education.

What drew you to teaching in the first place?

So I would say teaching something that I always knew I wanted to do,

even really ever since I was a little girl, I would play, you know,

teacher with my siblings.

And it was just the direction I always wanted to head.

And I started teaching right out of college,

you know, age 21. Teaching was all my professional experience up until my career change. And what was the point where you decided you wanted to leave education? I would say probably the last four years, I'd kind of contemplated it.

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