30 July 2010 – A fair day’s pay…
I had the fortune recently of getting to know a high school teacher from Mississippi. We compared teaching experiences and the duties of our respective job descriptions. She works far harder and has far more oversight over what she does. She even has to have liability insurance and access to a lawyer for fear of litigation. She’s probably more passionate about teaching too, having entered the profession for all the right reasons. She gets paid approximately 30% of what I make as a college professor. Now I know what you’re saying — she entered the profession of high school teaching knowing there wasn’t any money in it. But there should be some semblance of being able to earn a living too. She lives in an apartment, and can probably forget about getting a house on her income. And there’s no hope in sight. I’m trying to help her come up with business ideas to parlay her experience into making money on the side as a consultant or writer. My real advice to her is to finish her Master’s degree and get out of secondary education. Getting paid a fair’s day pay for a fair day’s work is a time-honored hope. Truth be told, if it wasn’t for DT I’d probably have an attitude in the classroom, not having received a raise in 5 years. But it’s all relative, and it’s hard for me to bitch about a lack of a raise amid the fears somebody else has over making ends meet. Life isn’t fair, and we all have choices, but it smacks of injustice when I see somebody so passionate about teaching young minds yet who worries about whether she can get by on the income of her profession. It all makes me feel very fortunate for what I have.
The call will go out next week to make contact with my old CA unit here in Pcola. I won’t be able to transfer until I take a PT test with them, and I have a damned pulled leg muscle that will take 2 weeks to heal. I refuse to take a PT test until I can max it, so mid-august the paperwork should start going through. If I’m going to get deployed, I’ll get a 30 day heads up. If that happens, I’ll immediately shut down DT and focus on getting my things in order for a lengthy vacation. I should be good through the fall term, but you never know.
TTYL – LT
I had the fortune recently of getting to know a high school teacher from Mississippi. We compared teaching experiences and the duties of our respective job descriptions. She works far harder and has far more oversight over what she does. She even has to have liability insurance and access to a lawyer for fear of litigation. She’s probably more passionate about teaching too, having entered the profession for all the right reasons. She gets paid approximately 30% of what I make as a college professor. Now I know what you’re saying — she entered the profession of high school teaching knowing there wasn’t any money in it. But there should be some semblance of being able to earn a living too. She lives in an apartment, and can probably forget about getting a house on her income. And there’s no hope in sight. I’m trying to help her come up with business ideas to parlay her experience into making money on the side as a consultant or writer. My real advice to her is to finish her Master’s degree and get out of secondary education. Getting paid a fair’s day pay for a fair day’s work is a time-honored hope. Truth be told, if it wasn’t for DT I’d probably have an attitude in the classroom, not having received a raise in 5 years. But it’s all relative, and it’s hard for me to bitch about a lack of a raise amid the fears somebody else has over making ends meet. Life isn’t fair, and we all have choices, but it smacks of injustice when I see somebody so passionate about teaching young minds yet who worries about whether she can get by on the income of her profession. It all makes me feel very fortunate for what I have.
The call will go out next week to make contact with my old CA unit here in Pcola. I won’t be able to transfer until I take a PT test with them, and I have a damned pulled leg muscle that will take 2 weeks to heal. I refuse to take a PT test until I can max it, so mid-august the paperwork should start going through. If I’m going to get deployed, I’ll get a 30 day heads up. If that happens, I’ll immediately shut down DT and focus on getting my things in order for a lengthy vacation. I should be good through the fall term, but you never know.
TTYL – LT
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“She’s hot” is enough.
Make it happen.
Cheers.
July 30th, 2010 at 7:31 am. Permalink.
There are plenty of examples of shitty pay for the job and experience level of the person performing it. Everyone makes their own choices and unless they WANT to chase the paycheck you can not talk sense into them if they only desire one particular career field. Go figure…
July 30th, 2010 at 10:53 pm. Permalink.
LT, sometime I should send you some pictures of what my Fiance’ did you the DucatHottie calender. She cut out clothing from different magazines and pasted then over Christine thinking she need more clothing on.. It’s my fault for putting the calendar up in the kitchen..lol
Mike
July 31st, 2010 at 3:42 am. Permalink.
My wife was doing some part time teaching and working toward her teaching credential here in Virginia. She put so much into it, specially when the kids were small that when she realized that starting pay here is about 20-25% of my pay. Not much for so much work. She changed over to Global Information Systems tech. Basically electronic mapping. Within 6 months she was hired at a Civil Engineering Firm and is doing quite well for a women that hadn’t been in the work force for 20 years. Teachers are not well appreciated or compensated as they deserve.
July 31st, 2010 at 6:19 am. Permalink.
I agree with John and Mark
and if you figure out what the hourly rate is for a teacher, they do pretty well. in fact, a teacher with the same years experience and a bachelor’s in the school system makes about 10% more than my wife who’s a psychologist in the same school system and she has 2 master’s. on top of that, after 30 years teaching, they can retire and start a new career at about 55 and collect a pension or return to work after retiring (though I’ve been told that may be phased out). i assure you, i won’t be able to retire at 55; i will be working until they put me in the ground
teachers may be under appreciated by some people, but sorry, i do not agree that they are not well compensated.
July 31st, 2010 at 11:36 pm. Permalink.