Career transition

[R.B]

Thanks for replying
Toronto kids
Mainly i love creativity using arts, crafts ....etc with the understanding of child psychology
thinking in future having my own place for crafts and arts
lee-bee
but can at least bachelor degree have something in addition in future
thank you again

[Lee-Bee]

Thanks for replying
Toronto kids
Mainly i love creativity using arts, crafts ....etc with the understanding of child psychology
thinking in future having my own place for crafts and arts
lee-bee
but can at least bachelor degree have something in addition in future
thank you again

Really depends on your plans.
I have my ECE and a Bachelors in Psychology and my Bachelor of Education.
Only the ECE is needed for daycare work. The rest is overkill. It might help me if I plan to try and be a manager or owner of a daycare centre...but even there I would suspect a degree in business would likely be more useful. There are many roles that branch out from usual daycare work and working with children that a Bachelor degree (in something child related) could be useful for. My friend is ECE and has a Bachelor degree and she is a case worker for another city that accesses how much child subsidy each family gets. No idea if her other degree was needed for that role though.

My totally biased (and slightly cynical) view is that the VAST majority of really good ECE's work in daycare for about 5yrs then move on because the money and respect is just not there. Some will move to home daycare and work for themselves and the rest get other degrees and move into other roles.

I got my teaching degree so I could still work with children but actually have benefits, a pension and job security. That is just rare in daycare work. It is not that I wanted to be working with older kids so much as it was the next closest job there is that had some respect, and long term security. I will return to that career once my daughter is in school.

If you already have a bachelor degree then by all mean leverage it to the best of your ability but I would not expect it to just magically make your wages higher than those without. It MIGHT get you a more senior role which might come with better pay.

It won't matter what kind of degree you have if you do not have your ECE. You need that to work in centres...though I think the college of ECE's may allow a few university degrees in place of the ECE but they obviously need to be a child development focussed degree.

Of course, I speak from a background in Ontario so Quebec would have it's own way of doing things. On last thing...I learned WAYYYYYY more completing my 2yr ECE program than I did in my 4 yr Psychology Degree and my 1 yr Teaching Degree. It may "only" be a college program but it was a solidly designed program that really did cover everything in great detail. At least mine did maybe that varies!