unemployment

[Edited on November 18, 2009 at 12:13 AM. Reason : pg. 3]

11/18/2009 12:13:46 AM

16. Wolfweb Moderator

Deal with the bitchiest, whiniest fucks known to inhabit this planet.
$0.00 pay.

11/18/2009 12:21:15 AM

So, one of the guys in my squadron was a teacher before he joined the USMC. I mentioned to him today that I thought it would be cool to work as a teacher for a while after I'm 50 years old and tired of working high-speed, stressful jobs, but not quite ready to retire.

The first thing he said was "Yeah, it's easy work."

11/18/2009 6:18:28 PM

If teachers actually taught their students something, and most students graduated high school at the appropriate academic level, then Id be ok with paying them more.

11/18/2009 6:23:10 PM

~85% of the teachers I know bust their asses teaching.


~10% of the students I know bust their asses learning.

11/18/2009 6:32:16 PM

perhaps

11/18/2009 6:33:29 PM

I'm a licensed teacher. Teaching was stressful work primarily because you become emotionally invested in your work and personally involved with more than 100 students a year. I can be an emotional roller coaster along with all of the things that make any job stressful.

Through early intervention services, I've become involved with the human services side of things. I have to stay that being a social worker does seem like the pits.

[Edited on November 18, 2009 at 6:40 PM. Reason : .]

11/18/2009 6:39:36 PM

The first couple of years of teaching is stressful as shit. Then two things start to happen:

1) If you give a crap and you're halfway talented at what you do, you become a decent teacher that can handle all the day-to-day grief without it blowing up.

2) You have your lesson plans already made for the entire semester and only about a half hour of tweaking is necessary to be ready for tomorrow.


My fourth year in, teaching is fun as crap, and I feel overpaid on most days.


(caveat: I teach social studies at a decent school. You'd have to triple my salary to teach math/science at an urban school)

11/18/2009 7:20:57 PM

^I think that sounds about right...very reasonable.


And regarding teacher pay, I confirmed what I was saying last night about the benefits. Basically, its a government job, and if you put in your years (30 in NC), you get insane benefits (relatively speaking). Teachers get paid a lot more to do nothing when they retire than most of america, and without having to invest a ton while they're teaching.

11/18/2009 8:22:21 PM

^yep, and people don't correctly account for the value of having a job where you have a low risk of getting fired.

11/18/2009 9:08:07 PM

Quote :

"the value of having a job where you have a low risk of getting fired"

I wouldn't go that far-- at least not this year.

11/18/2009 9:29:22 PM

Quote :

"You'd have to triple my salary to teach math/science at an urban school"

add "middle school" to that, and there we have it.

11/18/2009 10:04:35 PM

^^If you had been teaching for less than 5 years in your district, you were at HIGH risk of getting fired this year. Anyone over that was golden, and i'm not shitting, even the teachers that sucked at their job.

11/19/2009 5:57:27 PM

they slashed a lot of jobs at my school last spring... it was my first year there and i was fortunate... i don't know how they decided who stayed and who went. (i know some teachers i perceived as good were let go over teacher i perceived as bad.)

11/19/2009 5:59:55 PM

got to be friends with the principle, like any job............brown-nose the boss

11/19/2009 6:11:23 PM

Teacher of the Year.... You're Fired!

http://www.wral.com/news/education/story/6456883/

11/19/2009 7:47:54 PM

[fail]

11/19/2009 7:48:39 PM