Embrace Your Calling: Becoming a teacher at 50, with Russ Hoadley

In this episode, I talk to Russ Hoadley on corporate burnout, changing career mid-life, and finding your true calling, in his case as a teacher.

Russ was working up to 115 hours a week with a demanding job in international finance, spending his life on an aeroplane, resulting in an unsatisfactory work-life balance especially with a young family.  After experiencing a near-fatal medical event, he knew his lifestyle needed to change.

He talks about how he started to volunteer at his children's school and coaching a junior football team and how this led to him the realisation that his prefect profession was in fact to become a teacher. Russ describes how he retrained and how teaching has had a hugely positive impact on his life, addressing his work-balance, providing career fulfilment and enabling him to rediscover his passion for playing sports.   

If, like Russ, you’re interested in retraining as a teacher, visit the UK Gov’s Get Into Teaching website: https://getintoteaching.education.gov.uk/train-to-be-a-teacher.