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[quote=Anonymous]I am a teacher and a single parent.  Before I had my kid, I worked multiple extra jobs, which enabled me to be in the financial position I am in today (which is middle class at best).  Over my whole career, colleagues have been struck by 1) how efficiently I manage my job work and 2) how quickly I completed all of my graduate credits for salary advancement.  The reality is that I have never had the luxury of spending huge amounts of time on lesson planning or grading.  The job, which I love, had to be contained precisely so I could make it financially.  I used to be at school 7-3 and then work other jobs 4-8, which would get me home at 9 ready to work efficiently on the teaching stuff.  I regularly worked 13-15 hours a day during that era.  Not complaining, as I liked the intensity of this and the financial goals I met, and I am definitely not alone.  I have sometimes seen colleagues who have a high-earning spouses spend crazy numbers of hours on teaching stuff because they don't have to worry about the salary.  Those of us who are living on the salary do talk amongst ourselves sometimes as our work/life balance is very different. My kid has a teacher who is a server Thursday-Sunday nights each week. [/quote]

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