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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]
I completely agree with teachers that APS administration has been a shit show with constantly changing communications.  But I refuse to accept that APS teachers have been exploited or gotten the short end of the stick this year.  They've gotten way more consideration and protections than many, many, many other professions.  We all had to transition to digital OR we had to work in person, pre-vaccine, with fear of getting sick.

My husband works in a government facility that took lousy COVID precautions with many significant outbreaks.   He still had to work in person all the way through, and then would return home where I was high risk.  Meanwhile, teachers were vaccinated first and then refuse to teach my 7 yo in person (not due to ADA, but our principal's policy).  My husband is still working in person at risk without a vaccine.  [/quote]

Exactly.. imagine if every other profession just decided not to do the job they signed up for. There would be 2 options - quit or get fired. APS made a huge mistake last year when relaxing requirements from the very beginning of COVID. Every decision after followed expectations to do the bare minimum. [/quote]

But of course, that’s irrelevant, because they have been doing their jobs for the past year.  You just don’t like the delivery method, but those conditions are set by their employers, not you.[/quote]

Imagine if your house caught fire. However the firemen refuse to work in-person and send you some instructions to follow. Or if you go to the grocery store to find nobody to help you, it's only self-checkout. When you need someone to actually help, you are screwed. That's what our kids have been dealing with for over a year. Stop kidding yourself, this is NOT OK[/quote]

Lmao nice false equivalence. House on fire looool[/quote]

So funny. Kids ask questions online everyday. They ask questions and teachers answer. [/quote]

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