It's never too late to consider a career in teaching. A 60-year old, who majored in math in college, has found a new career as a math teacher two years after she was laid off in her old job.

April Apfelbaum, who used to work as a human resources manager for a New Jersey company, will soon begin teaching math in the Philadelphia urban school district. She just finished a state-sponsored masters program that was recruiting math and science specialists, the U.S. News reports.

The program, which is supported by a $1.4 million grant from the National Science Foundation, has sent students to graduate school to complete a masters degree and offers them a fulltime teaching position. The first batch of students are all math specialists and next year's batch will be geared to recruit science specialists.

"We are not just generically teaching them how to teach math. We are teaching them how to teach math in an urban setting," Katherine Schultz, assistant professor in Pennsylvania State University’s graduate school of education, told the news provider.

Teachers from kindergarten to high school levels held about 3.5 million jobs in 2008, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. It expects job prospects for teachers to remain robust, with high demand for fields such as mathematics, science and bilingual education.