That summer, she was back in the United States, teaching field hockey at camps, when he called from Portland, Ore., where he had relocated following his graduation from Oberlin.
Teachers who combined teaching with jobs different from the taught field perceived such challenges to be less frequent and less stressful than those colleagues who only taught or whose additional job was related to the taught field.
In such a context, simultaneous experience as both a teacher and a professional in the taught field may be encouraged and valued as an advantage.
For nearly all the variables, no differences were found between the two sub-groups of people who combined teaching with another job (i.e. those who were involved in a job closely related to the taught field and those who were engaged in a job very different from the taught field).
In particular, individuals who combined teaching with a secondary job in a completely different field experienced role-related challenges to be less frequent and less stressful than colleagues who held secondary jobs that were close to the taught field.
Moreover, people in the late phase of their careers were more likely to be only teachers or, alternatively, to be involved in an additional job that is very different from the taught field.
Seventy per cent of the sample (426 people) were employed only as teachers, 16percentnt (93 people) combined teaching with another job in a completely different field with respect to the teaching subject and the remaining 14percentnt (85 participants) combined teaching with another job similar to the taught field.
For statistical reasons, we merged the two groups of people who combined teaching with another job (i.e. those who combined it with a job similar to the taught field and those who combined teaching with a job in a very different field).
Among these teaching fields, architecture has a unique position with regard to its content, methodology and the techniques used.
The multiple job-holding condition is especially favoured among Swiss vocational education and training (VET) teachers, who are required to have prior careers in their specific teaching fields.
Some researchers have suggested that this phenomenon is more pronounced in some teaching fields more than others, with math and science being particularly prone to the compounding effect of teacher shortages (Grissmer and Kirby 1992 , 1997 Liu et al. 2008; Murnane et al. 1991; Weiss and Boyd 1990).
