Who says that we need cheap pickups?

bucky wrote:
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.

Funny, according to information published by the State of North Carolina Department of Public Information, the lowest base pay for a teacher with only a Bachelor degree with no special certification is $35,000 per year with a 10 Month (not a year) contract. That amount rises significantly with certifications, advanced degrees and experience. A teacher with a certification and 15 years experience (making them around 40 years old) will make in excess of $50K per year. On top of that, there are many opportunities for those teachers to earn additional income such as coaching, being involved in other extracurricular activities, earning additional certifications and advanced degrees etc. Education systems have long been known for having good benefits and good retirement plans and often allow for retirement at much lower ages than the private sector. On top of that, teachers are pretty much guaranteed to keep their seniority when they move from location to location and are able to obtain employment anywhere in the country be it large city, small town or anywhere in between. (compared to most private sector employees whose skills can only be used in large cities or specific location) Teachers in desperate poverty is very much a myth. It may have been true in the past, but it now should be placed in the same basket as the "I am a government employee and I make much less than my private sector counterpart".