Who says that we need cheap pickups?
I don't like spending money any more than most people and I keep reading comments that some people want cheap, simple pickups but the people actually putting their money down seem to have a different ...
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A nerve has been struck here about teachers.
My true love spent her career in special needs education. Luckily we lived in a area with a shortage of her special training and she actually outearned me the last couple of years we worked. Didn't offend me a bit.
My oldest DD and her husband made a career move for him, and the pay in NC is so low she just stays and home and raises babies. Which is a much harder job BTW.
I won't even get into the lousy parents, that's another topic.
What I will get into is that a lot of people think that teaching is basically a part time job. I'm here to tell you it's not. Nights and weekends shot with grading papers, calling parents, and on and on. DW worked regular ed for a few years at the beginning and I told her I was leaving if she didn't find a different career path. I never got to have her for us. Us would have never made the 41 years and counting we have now if she hadn't become a speech therapist for a very needy population in a special school.
As to 4 months off, you better look again. Maybe 10 weeks, and a lot of teachers have to work summers to make ends meet. These are educated humans, a lot with masters degrees, and some of you think $30K is living wages? Heck that's the new MINIMUM WAGE in some places. So kiss my grits. Rant over.
2Old, that's not vanity on your part, they are looking at the truck:R.
WPO that was just rude.
Do we like nice things? Sure we do, but if the economy crashes it won't crash on us. We're paid out with our little shack and a Model A to pull the 5er.
My true love spent her career in special needs education. Luckily we lived in a area with a shortage of her special training and she actually outearned me the last couple of years we worked. Didn't offend me a bit.
My oldest DD and her husband made a career move for him, and the pay in NC is so low she just stays and home and raises babies. Which is a much harder job BTW.
I won't even get into the lousy parents, that's another topic.
What I will get into is that a lot of people think that teaching is basically a part time job. I'm here to tell you it's not. Nights and weekends shot with grading papers, calling parents, and on and on. DW worked regular ed for a few years at the beginning and I told her I was leaving if she didn't find a different career path. I never got to have her for us. Us would have never made the 41 years and counting we have now if she hadn't become a speech therapist for a very needy population in a special school.
As to 4 months off, you better look again. Maybe 10 weeks, and a lot of teachers have to work summers to make ends meet. These are educated humans, a lot with masters degrees, and some of you think $30K is living wages? Heck that's the new MINIMUM WAGE in some places. So kiss my grits. Rant over.
2Old, that's not vanity on your part, they are looking at the truck:R.
WPO that was just rude.
Do we like nice things? Sure we do, but if the economy crashes it won't crash on us. We're paid out with our little shack and a Model A to pull the 5er.
