Thankless/underrated jobs

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Anonymous wrote:SAHM mom with 4 kids and workaholic, travelling DH

no way, not even a real job. Most people have to do this in ADDITION to a real job.

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Anonymous wrote:I am a nurse. It is intense and more challenging than most people realize.

+ a thousand

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SAHM mom with 4 kids and workaholic, travelling DH

Nope, try again.

Haha, proved my point! I was a teacher -- it was easy. teachers reuse their material from year to year and most just scan over the homework.
But SAHM: up at 6AM, childcare, cooking, cleaning, repairing house, car maintenance, insurance, bills, landscape, more cooking, the grocery store, driving, more childcare, bathing, feeding, entertaining, listening to the endless drama, dinner, after school activities, more driving, doctor's appointments, ER visits, school paperwork, homework, more cleaning ...more laundry, dishes, more cooking and down at 11:30PM for that last load ...
And all this time people think you are just chillin'

Teachers who are also parents also get up early, cook, clean, repair their houses, maintain their cars, deal with insurance, pay bill, landscape, go to the grocery store, give children baths, take their kids to the ER, fill in school paperwork . . . and then after they put the kids to bed they start grading and creating lesson plans.

I would agree 100% that being a SAHM is usually harder than being a teacher with no kids. But I think that barring special needs kids or very specific circumstances (e.g. a SAH spouse), teaching full time and parenting kids, is as hard or harder than SAH with the same combination of kids.

Teachers and nurse make up the largest group of women who elect child free living. Without kids, teaching is an easy job.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think being a teacher is a thankless job these days. It's a very demanding, draining job, but everyone I know appreciates teachers and shows it.

Different story for those doing the grunt work of taking care of the elderly, though.

Agreed. It's a valuable, hard, demanding job... and I knew as soon as I saw this thread that 90%+ of it would be teachers talking about how hard their job is and how undervalued they are. I am so grateful for wonderful teachers, but the martyrdom of an outspoken minority is getting really old.

The pay rates are pretty competitive too when you start to dig into real numbers.

+1 And the benefits. Taking care of the elderly or being a nurse -- now thats a hard, undervalued job.

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Anonymous wrote:Dentist.

huh? I love my dentist and he's well compensated. Not sure how it's underrated or thankless.

Agree. Pp is nuts

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Dentists make PLENTY. It's a guaranteed ticket into the upper middle class, if not outright wealthy. Much less schooling than a doctor and many more years earning money.

+1

I just left a dentist that upsold everything; and now many dentists do braces, so almost instant cash. Plus, far fewer people have dental coverage than medical - so the dentists make bank while the doctors get screwed a lot.

+3 Ever notice how a successful dentist is always closed on Fridays?

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SAHM mom with 4 kids and workaholic, travelling DH

Nope, try again.

Haha, proved my point! I was a teacher -- it was easy. teachers reuse their material from year to year and most just scan over the homework.
But SAHM: up at 6AM, childcare, cooking, cleaning, repairing house, car maintenance, insurance, bills, landscape, more cooking, the grocery store, driving, more childcare, bathing, feeding, entertaining, listening to the endless drama, dinner, after school activities, more driving, doctor's appointments, ER visits, school paperwork, homework, more cleaning ...more laundry, dishes, more cooking and down at 11:30PM for that last load ...
And all this time people think you are just chillin'

Teacher turned SAHM here... if teaching was easy and you just "scanned" homework, then it sounds like you were checked out and not actually performing your job. Being a parent in general is often challenging but that wasn't the point of OPs post.

I agree with the assessement that nurses are unappreciated...I didn't realize this until after I gave birth. The nurses did everything, I barely saw my OB!

Like 99% of public school teachers.

I'm glad you stopped fellating Chris Christie long enough to write that very important message.

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Sounds like the Chris Christie reference was by someone who never learned the meaning of non sequitur

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Mine, of course!

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The woman at the deli counter at a grocery store I frequent is very kind and courteous. She was telling me issues where the store is trying to cut people's hours and the union does nothing about it. Dealing with this crap and serving customers all day is not easy.She has my respect.

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Anonymous wrote:I am a nurse. It is intense and more challenging than most people realize.

I am a social worker, and the nurse on my unit generally works for many hours past her end time writing med notes, behavior notes, doctor orders... She is so kind/ generous/ outgoing to every patient on the unit. She knows their habits (food and behavior), daily ins and outs re: behaviors/ meds, preferences.. I am always in awe of her and how much she sees/ knows/ does.

Thanks, nurses!

I hope she is getting paid for those hours.

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Nanny is a thankless job. The parent don't acknowledge your contributions and minimize your importance in their kids lives. "but I'm the mom" yeah but the nanny is the one with your kid 60 hours a week. Who is more of an influence in their life??

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News reporter.

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Anonymous wrote:News reporter.

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Most are narcissists anyway so who cares about people in the news

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Teachers get a whole week of appreciation. I'm not saying it's hard, but I don't think it's thankless.

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Anonymous wrote:Teachers get a whole week of appreciation. I'm not saying it's hard, but I don't think it's thankless.

I'm not saying it's *not* hard work

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I would say being a nanny.

(Before you claim that working as a nanny is not "real" work, I have to disagree.

Nannies provide a much needed service for families & they are financially compensated for it.
If that isn't a REAL job, then I don't know what is.

Yet many people do not consider it a legitimate way to earn a living.