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imjustagirl said:Wrong, douchebox.quote]
why do you people talk to each other like this?
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imjustagirl said:Wrong, douchebox.quote]
why do you people talk to each other like this?
Yeah, you can work long and hard hours shovelling shirt but it doesn't make it more challenging than teaching.Beef03 said:JR said:Beef, long hours in retail is a fact of life. I was a bookseller for fourteen years so I know the environment. But the skill set in managing a retail store is entirely different from teaching.
Absolutely different skill sets are needed wasn't the point I was trying to make. The point I was trying to make was a comparison in hours and how hard one works. Was just trying to make the point that many people work long, hard hours and that this bowing down before teachers because of "how hard" they work has me shaking my head.
You see, you even forked up my quote functionProfessor Snape said:Um, because douches like you don't know how to use the quote function.imjustagirl said:Wrong, douchebox.quote]
why do you people talk to each other like this?
It amazes me that people think 77000 after 30 years is a heck of a lot of money.BTExpress said:Teachers are vastly underpaid for what they do. We take them for granted, big-time.
Maybe some are. But one I play tennis with just retired in her mid-50s with a final salary of $77,000.
And now she has pension and the chance to sub at her convenience.
Three other friends of mine dropped journalism in their early 30s and became teachers. How many other professions can one seamlessly ease into like that? Or to put it another way, say a teacher friend of yours in her 30s wants to become a journalist. What are her chances of 1) finding a job, and 2) finding a better-paying job?
JC said:It amazes me that people think 77000 after 30 years is a heck of a lot of money.BTExpress said:Teachers are vastly underpaid for what they do. We take them for granted, big-time.
Maybe some are. But one I play tennis with just retired in her mid-50s with a final salary of $77,000.
And now she has pension and the chance to sub at her convenience.
Three other friends of mine dropped journalism in their early 30s and became teachers. How many other professions can one seamlessly ease into like that? Or to put it another way, say a teacher friend of yours in her 30s wants to become a journalist. What are her chances of 1) finding a job, and 2) finding a better-paying job?
Then why stay in the business?Beef03 said:JC said:It amazes me that people think 77000 after 30 years is a heck of a lot of money.BTExpress said:Teachers are vastly underpaid for what they do. We take them for granted, big-time.
Maybe some are. But one I play tennis with just retired in her mid-50s with a final salary of $77,000.
And now she has pension and the chance to sub at her convenience.
Three other friends of mine dropped journalism in their early 30s and became teachers. How many other professions can one seamlessly ease into like that? Or to put it another way, say a teacher friend of yours in her 30s wants to become a journalist. What are her chances of 1) finding a job, and 2) finding a better-paying job?
In this day and age it isn't a ton of money. It's OK money. It's better money than I'll be seeing after 30 years if I stay in this business. And you don't need to be college edumacted to make that coin or have a white collar job, I know plenty of people who make six figures in the oil patch or close to it as electricians or plumbers, not as mid level execs. but as guys out in the field.
JC said:Then why stay in the business?Beef03 said:JC said:It amazes me that people think 77000 after 30 years is a heck of a lot of money.BTExpress said:Teachers are vastly underpaid for what they do. We take them for granted, big-time.
Maybe some are. But one I play tennis with just retired in her mid-50s with a final salary of $77,000.
And now she has pension and the chance to sub at her convenience.
Three other friends of mine dropped journalism in their early 30s and became teachers. How many other professions can one seamlessly ease into like that? Or to put it another way, say a teacher friend of yours in her 30s wants to become a journalist. What are her chances of 1) finding a job, and 2) finding a better-paying job?
In this day and age it isn't a ton of money. It's OK money. It's better money than I'll be seeing after 30 years if I stay in this business. And you don't need to be college edumacted to make that coin or have a white collar job, I know plenty of people who make six figures in the oil patch or close to it as electricians or plumbers, not as mid level execs. but as guys out in the field.
Professor Snape said:imjustagirl said:Wrong, douchebox.
why do you people talk to each other like this?