Graduate glut puts trainee teachers on the scrapheap, Anna Pat

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Reader's Comment, Graduate glut puts trainee teachers on the scrapheap, Anna Patty, The Sydney Moring Herald, 20 October 2014.

2012 NSW graduate teacher: Heed these words, even maths and science teachers will have to start in Wilcannia and Bourke.

After graduating as a secondary teacher I approached as many local schools about the possibility of casual teaching in my subject and realised while waiting on " the list", that the work simply wasn't going to come to me.

When you complete your application with the DEC, there are options that will substantially improve your chances of obtaining permanent work.

I nominated EVERYWHERE.

I graduated in 2012, realised the waiting around wasn't working and demonstrated my seriousness by moving to a place of demand.

I picked a place of isolation and as far away from Sydney as possible and ended up living in a Backpackers in Broken Hill.

Guess what, I got 6 months ongoing casual teaching and therefore proved that I meant what I said on my application.

It is now over two years since I have graduated.

I still have no news about this mystical golden " list" that magically falls from the sky to those who apparently have proven themselves.

Heed these words... you will not be surfing on the coast a year after you graduate... even maths and science teachers have to start in Wilcannia and Bourke my friend.

Do not invest in any boardies yet!

Rowynne