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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's a hard job professionally because it falls into the same realm as medicine and nursing. You are 100 percent on when you are on. I'm an ER doctor and my wife is a teacher and I think the thing that's great about our jobs is that when we're off, we are off. But the thing that sucks is that you don't have that flexibility of a lot of office jobs. Our days are scheduled to the minute, the breaks are tight and disappear. I make 225K a year working 40 hours a week. No nights/weekends or call. My wife works about 50 plus random nights (back to school, reading nights, family engagement, etc) and she makes in the 70'sK. She's been teaching for nearly 15 years with a master's. I won't get into how people treat teachers, but compared to me, it's bad.[/quote] The funny thing is that if you were both in Finland, she'd get treated as well as you would. Teachers are esteemed as highly as doctors there, while here, are somewhere between dog walkers and dog catchers.[/quote]
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