EDMONTON — Some Alberta teachers are trying to figure out how to make ends meet without their regular paycheque as a provincewide strike entered its second day Tuesday.

Adrien Dominguez, a math and science teacher in High Prairie, said he's considering taking up work in photography, marketing and university tutoring.

While he has a reserve fund, he said some friends who are teachers aren't so lucky and are looking at waitressing, bartending or retail jobs.

"I know co-workers who lost dual incomes, because they're both teachers, or one's a teacher and one's a support staff or got laid off," he said in an interview.

The job action by Alberta's teachers follows a long and nasty standoff between the Alberta Teachers' Association and the provincial government, mainly over wages and working

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