 After his qualifying exam, he worked as an auxiliary teacher at several schools in Württemberg from 1894 to 1901, though in April 1900 he was suspended for six months because of "severe nervousness and irritability".He then went to Switzerland for two months, where he tried to sell some of his poems to newspapers.In July 1901, Wagner was assigned a teaching position in Mühlhausen an der Enz, where he stayed until 1902.