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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]There are a lot of them.[b] How about construction and project management in construction?[/b] All sorts of random hours. Feast or famine. Some times you work tons of hours, sometimes you don't.

In this country, professional workers are not bound by a 9 to 5 set of hours. They are not covered under FLSA. Most of them are regularly asked to complete work outside of normal hours and there is no requirement to compensate them with overtime. Those are facts.

With the hourly rates teachers get paid given the number of days off in a year, teaching is not even a particularly low paid profession.

It is what it is. Acting like teachers are somehow uniquely "taken advantage" of is just not reality. We all have ebbs and flows in our work. Times of the year that are extra busy and we put in extra hours. Vacations where we are available and work because work goes on while we are on "vacation" and people need us for things.

I can see that the teaching profession has some pretty unique rigidity in terms of inability to choose your vacation schedule, lack of flexibility with your time during in-session school days. That must be challenging. Also, you get A LOT of time off free and clear. Every profession has pros and cons.

Also, sincerely if it's so terrible, re-train and get another profession. See if the grass is greener.[/quote]
I can attest to this -- spouse works in construction management for large commercial projects - I don't think he has EVER worked only 40 hours a week.  I work as an engineer in an environmental discipline and have always been expected to put in extra hours when required (proposals, deadline crunches, etc.).  No extra pay, no guaranteed bonuses.  This past year, we have both continued full speed with our work, while picking up the slack of APS and trying to make sure our kids don't fall too far behind.  It has been absolutely exhausting.  I have actually considered going into teaching just so that I can take more than a few days of leave at a time.  The pay cut and "extra" hours during the school year would absolutely be worth being able to take 8 continuous weeks off in the summer.  Two weeks at Christmas, a week spring break?  Snow days?  I haven't been able to take off more than 1 week off at a time for the past 15 years.
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this is the reality that is so frustrating right now.. most people are working full time, plus teaching their kids because APS can't get it's act together.  [/quote]

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