Lame response that rebuts nothing. Sorry, teacher salaries don’t need to be high because, relative to other jobs, the potential workforce is huge. |
And here is the issue with the teaching profession. If we aren’t worried about quality, then I agree: the potential workforce is huge. Almost anybody can stand in front of a classroom and call security if someone is getting hurt. If we want challenging content to be effectively delivered in a safe and encouraging environment, then that potential workforce shrunk considerably. We pay teachers with the first group in mind, meaning the teachers who have the content knowledge - as well as the skill to teach it to defiant teenagers - are paid commiserate with the babysitters. |
What does this mean? |
There are variations in quality in every profession. Teachers are not special. |
You can blame the Teacher’s Unions for this. |
Our society is so messed up. - work well over 40hours/week with advanced degrees and earn less than 100K in local government |
I'm at $140k and work maybe 10 hours per week.
But my current company is clown central. The 10 hours I contribute provides way more value than all the work that some of my co-workers do. If I did more than 10 hours of work, I honestly think that there's be a huge backlash against me. Last year, I did try to do more and asked to take on more in the vague hope of "getting ahead". It did nothing more than piss people off. It was almost like my doing more became a threat to other peoples' 10 hour per week routines. I guess I violated the sacred bond of mutually agreed upon under-performance. Very strange... |
I’ve been doing substitute teaching for a few years in my time off from my “real” job. The negatives of the in-class routine are accurate. But you do get to choose which schools you sub in and you do get to take the classes you want, so there’s plenty of control over your work. At least this is true in my district. Give it a try! |
+1000 Workout every day, travel a bunch, go live in a different city for a month at a time, travel with your kids all summer around the US. |
I’m with you OP. I get paid about half what you do, am in office every day and am SO BORED. Most days I’m looking for things to do/create work or side projects for myself. But there is only so much I can do. And yes, I’m a fed. I work with people who equally sit around and do nothing and I don’t know how they can stand it. But I guess the money is decent, and the benefits are great. The sad thing is, if I left this job, I would have to take a major pay cut because it’s such a niche field that it pays even less because to leave government would mean moving to non profit where the money is worse. |
The robots are coming for all of our jobs. I make *only 135k in a mid senior role in my late 40s), but work at a nonproft. I do have projects that are extremely annoying due to offfice BS, but for the most part my job is easy, and I’m overqualified for my role. I work in communications, so a lot of it is exercising good judgement, but the bulk of my work is something a monkey can do- and definitely AI can do, which has always been the case. I’m more than aware AI is going to transform everything before we know it. I use it to take meeting notes and help refine groupthink concepts into something more streamlined. We are goners. Might as well keep at it for 3 more years to become eligible for a pension, but I’m looking for what to do beyond that. And what to advise my kids to do.
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Is AI able to know what to do without being told? |
Very soon. Right now it can do a lot with just your permission. |
I work 6-8 hours a week and have a 60K retainer. Want to retire, but 5k a month is nice spending money. I'm bored but love the $$ (I was a SAHM for years so this is just "extra"). I volunteer to keep busy and that is much more rewarding. |
Former teacher her. I only lasted 4 years in an urban public school - and I am a GREAT teacher. A math teacher at my school lasted one year, and she had a degree from MIT.
It’s not sustainable. |