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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't understand why people choose teaching as a career if they dislike the working conditions and the pay?  I have a lot of friends who are teachers and when they get together all they do is bitch about work.  It gets old listening to it.  I don't feel the need to burden my friends with the day to day complaints about my job.

Teachers as a collective enjoy complaining about their work and they are very vocal about not being paid enough.  Teachers also have this misconception they are the only ones working hard.  We as a society feed this negativity on their part and continually tell them they aren't valued, they don't make enough, they work too much.  But what would be fair pay?  If we gave them all $125K annual salary I still don't think they would feel adequately compensated.

But my question is this, what person ever thinks they are paid enough for what they do?  We all want more money.[/quote]

I am a teacher and I actually agree with you.  I get tired of all the complaining during lunch, too!

I am frustrated by the fact that if I had looked in Arlington when I got a teaching job 15 years ago, I would be making a lot more now.  I am very happy at my school in FCPS which is why I don't really consider leaving, but it is annoying that just 10 miles away, teachers are making so much more for the same work.  [/quote]

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