Jealous of my teacher friends

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. Woah. Never ever did I say teachers didn't deserve their vacation time or don't work incredibly hard. It is definitely a job I could not do. I'm only jealous of that time off. I wish I could be home with my own kids during the summer!

Just wanted to clarify something. The summer/spring break/winter break is not vacation time. We are not paid for those days. Memorial day? Not paid. Labor day? Not paid. You probably get a few paid holidays right? Our pay is divided to give equal paychecks during the year but those days are not contract days so we do not get paid. Hence, not vacation.

This is such a silly argument. I get paid once a month, the exact same amount, no matter how many hours I work or if the month has more or fewer days. That doesn’t make some days in a 31 day month “unpaid.”

Ok, when I was a teacher we received 10 paychecks per year, 1 per month for 10 months. I did not receive a paycheck in the summer. That is why I refer to it as unpaid because I was not paid.

When I was a teacher’s aide, I made $9.75/hr and nothing in the summer. If you averaged it out to be a year round salary I would have been “making” subminimum wage. Now THAT is unpaid time. Teachers get a living wage for their year round lives no matter how you slice and dice it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I happen to have a lot of friends or relatives that are teachers. My best friend teaches 2nd grade. While she works her rear off during the year putting in 10-12 hour days, her vacation time is to die for. I'm at work during the beautiful weather and she's at home with her kids, taking them to the pool, going to the zoo or to the park and sleeping in. I know that I could have had the same career but chose differently, so that's my own fault. Plus, honestly, I don't think I could do what she does. But 2 weeks at Christmas, a week in the spring, 9 weeks in the summer, all the holidays? I'm so jealous!

[Anonymous]

Op, you can be a waitress/waiter. I take 2 months off during summer and 2 months off during winter. I also only work part time ca 25 hours. They are lucky if I come to work at all since they are always short staffed.
My next gig is being substitute teacher. No, I won't be teaching English but rather everything else.
I cannot imagine having only 2 weeks off a year plus holidays or whatever it is.

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You could not pay me enough to bs a teacher. I think of the vacation time as sanity breaks. Kids are shitheads and their parents are worse.

I'll take my 48 weeks of work per year, and my 4 weeks of vacation when I choose to. (For the most part since it has to be approved)

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*be Not bs*

Lol

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I think the grass is often greener on the other side of the fence.

I'm a special ed teacher. There's a lot to be jealous about in my profession. I get to laugh with my every day. It's never boring. I teach summer school, but still get 4 weeks off. And, I have to admit that snow days rock.

But that doesn't mean I don't also sometimes feel jealous of people with other careers. I envy the houses some of my college classmates can afford. I envy my friends who have enough flexibility at work to do things like take calls from their pediatrician in private during the work day, or slip out for an hour to see the Halloween parade. When my kid had serious medical issues, I really envied parents who had annual leave they could use at will.

The reality is that I have a job that has its perks, and its downsides, as do most of the well educated people I know.

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Anonymous wrote:I think the grass is often greener on the other side of the fence.

I'm a special ed teacher. There's a lot to be jealous about in my profession. I get to laugh with my * every day. It's never boring. I teach summer school, but still get 4 weeks off. And, I have to admit that snow days rock.

But that doesn't mean I don't also sometimes feel jealous of people with other careers. I envy the houses some of my college classmates can afford. I envy my friends who have enough flexibility at work to do things like take calls from their pediatrician in private during the work day, or slip out for an hour to see the Halloween parade. When my kid had serious medical issues, I really envied parents who had annual leave they could use at will.

The reality is that I have a job that has its perks, and its downsides, as do most of the well educated people I know.

* with my students. I laugh with my students!

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I don’t think the whole “summers off” thing really holds true. My mom was a teacher, and during the summer she was often tutoring/ writing curriculum/ etc. to make extra money. Also, as demanding as my job is, when I’m just not feeling it, I can kind of hide behind my desk for the day, sending out missives by email, avoiding human interaction for the most part. As a teacher, you don’t really get that option.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. Woah. Never ever did I say teachers didn't deserve their vacation time or don't work incredibly hard. It is definitely a job I could not do. I'm only jealous of that time off. I wish I could be home with my own kids during the summer!

Just wanted to clarify something. The summer/spring break/winter break is not vacation time. We are not paid for those days. Memorial day? Not paid. Labor day? Not paid. You probably get a few paid holidays right? Our pay is divided to give equal paychecks during the year but those days are not contract days so we do not get paid. Hence, not vacation.

This is such a silly argument. I get paid once a month, the exact same amount, no matter how many hours I work or if the month has more or fewer days. That doesn’t make some days in a 31 day month “unpaid.”

Ok, when I was a teacher we received 10 paychecks per year, 1 per month for 10 months. I did not receive a paycheck in the summer. That is why I refer to it as unpaid because I was not paid.

When I was a teacher’s aide, I made $9.75/hr and nothing in the summer. If you averaged it out to be a year round salary I would have been “making” subminimum wage. Now THAT is unpaid time. Teachers get a living wage for their year round lives no matter how you slice and dice it.

It’s not a competition to see who was paid the worst. Both scenarios described above include unpaid time. Also, depends where you live and work because not all teachers make a decent living wage anymore.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. Woah. Never ever did I say teachers didn't deserve their vacation time or don't work incredibly hard. It is definitely a job I could not do. I'm only jealous of that time off. I wish I could be home with my own kids during the summer!

Just wanted to clarify something. The summer/spring break/winter break is not vacation time. We are not paid for those days. Memorial day? Not paid. Labor day? Not paid. You probably get a few paid holidays right? Our pay is divided to give equal paychecks during the year but those days are not contract days so we do not get paid. Hence, not vacation.

This is such a silly argument. I get paid once a month, the exact same amount, no matter how many hours I work or if the month has more or fewer days. That doesn’t make some days in a 31 day month “unpaid.”

Ok, when I was a teacher we received 10 paychecks per year, 1 per month for 10 months. I did not receive a paycheck in the summer. That is why I refer to it as unpaid because I was not paid.

When I was a teacher’s aide, I made $9.75/hr and nothing in the summer. If you averaged it out to be a year round salary I would have been “making” subminimum wage. Now THAT is unpaid time. Teachers get a living wage for their year round lives no matter how you slice and dice it.

It’s not a competition to see who was paid the worst. Both scenarios described above include unpaid time. Also, depends where you live and work because not all teachers make a decent living wage anymore.

Teachers have it so bad in NC, which should be an affordable state. It is really upsetting when you consider they are expected to take a bullet for our kids.

[Anonymous]

Do not be jealous. You have the same sick and personal leave time, just not all at once- which is not great. They really can't take off during the year. You also aren't on the verge of a nervous breakdown all the time and making a crappy salary, to boot.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. Woah. Never ever did I say teachers didn't deserve their vacation time or don't work incredibly hard. It is definitely a job I could not do. I'm only jealous of that time off. I wish I could be home with my own kids during the summer!

Just wanted to clarify something. The summer/spring break/winter break is not vacation time. We are not paid for those days. Memorial day? Not paid. Labor day? Not paid. You probably get a few paid holidays right? Our pay is divided to give equal paychecks during the year but those days are not contract days so we do not get paid. Hence, not vacation.

This is such a silly argument. I get paid once a month, the exact same amount, no matter how many hours I work or if the month has more or fewer days. That doesn’t make some days in a 31 day month “unpaid.”

Ok, when I was a teacher we received 10 paychecks per year, 1 per month for 10 months. I did not receive a paycheck in the summer. That is why I refer to it as unpaid because I was not paid.

When I was a teacher’s aide, I made $9.75/hr and nothing in the summer. If you averaged it out to be a year round salary I would have been “making” subminimum wage. Now THAT is unpaid time. Teachers get a living wage for their year round lives no matter how you slice and dice it.

Mom is that you? Still bitter and jealous of the teachers?

[Anonymous]

I had a friend who's mom was a teacher. Summer vacations were partly for taking a class or brushing up skills-teaching summer school for less money.

Yes, summer were off but she could only go on vacation in the summer when prices were high or during breaks. Try dealing with middle school students everyday makes the corporate world look brilliant.

Finally now with school shootings, mandatory lockdown training, etc teachers get paid way too little for what they put up with.

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Anonymous wrote:I know that I’m not cut out for teaching, but I do envy the summers off a bit, but probably more so the “portableness” of the profession- there arent many places DH and I could both find good jobs so we sometimes feel rather stuck in the DMV. I’ve also known teachers who step away for a couple years when having a baby, or to go on sabbatical or similar for their spouse’s job, and have a relatively easy time finding a new job when they are ready to step back in. Again, not something I could do in my field.

But it’s not an easy profession by any means.

Likewise. I think I'd prefer to be a teacher in a lot of ways, except for the part where I'd probably be terrible at it. Sometimes I daydream about teaching high school social studies in a cushy private school but I couldn't take the pay cut....

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Anonymous wrote:I happen to have a lot of friends or relatives that are teachers. My best friend teaches 2nd grade. While she works her rear off during the year putting in 10-12 hour days, her vacation time is to die for. I'm at work during the beautiful weather and she's at home with her kids, taking them to the pool, going to the zoo or to the park and sleeping in. I know that I could have had the same career but chose differently, so that's my own fault. Plus, honestly, I don't think I could do what she does. But 2 weeks at Christmas, a week in the spring, 9 weeks in the summer, all the holidays? I'm so jealous!

Where does your friend teach that she has 9 weeks off in summer? Public schools get out in mid to late June and teachers’ report back in mid to late August tounpack classrooms and undergo training.

Mid June to mid August is 9 weeks plus or minus a day or two.