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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I invest plenty in my career.

When I’m on contract. You are a CHUMP if you work contract hours for free for months at a time. [/quote]

Well that settles the debate whether teachers are professionals or just laborers in a large education-industrial complex.[/quote]

My one opinion didn’t settle anything but go on. I get you think you’ll make me feel like a bad teacher for not working 40 hour unpaid  work weeks off contract but it won’t happen. [/quote]

And it shouldn’t. I’m not a teacher, but I’m not working if I’m not compensated. I’m a professional, and part of that means that I expect to be compensated for the job I do and the tenants that come with that job. I’m a nurse, and I’m paid for trainings that I attend. If not, I wouldn’t attend them because I don’t work for FREE. Stop equating free labor with professionalism. You can be good at your job and understand that you should be compensated for it at the same time. [/quote]
 
Lawyer here. I bill hours. Does that make me unprofessional? If I craft an email to or for a client, they get billed for my time and services. I don’t work out of the goodness of my heart. I work to get paid and put food on the table. [/quote]

Who do you bill your CLE too?[/quote]

That’s built into my salary that I make all 12 months. It’s not like I do CLE while the firm freezes my pay and tells me to go complete CLE. I’m also compensated with bonuses when cases win. Teachers: when your class does well on the SOL do you make extra money? [/quote]

We do not and thank you for pointing that out. Unlike in many other jobs, there are NO merit bonuses at all in teaching. We also have incredibly limited opportunity to grow our salary- your wage is a set box on an x/y axis of years of experience + education AND , like this year, it is frozen anytime there’s cuts. So whereas my husband can get a 5 figure bonus by winning a contract or jump companies and boost his salary 20k, I am not ever going to receive a bonus for how well I teach nor am I going to have the capacity for earning that private sector employees do. Now, I accept that my pretty low salary, no bonus opportunities and minimal salary growth are part of this job and I love the job so I will tolerate the trade offs but it does NOT mean I will also work full time *for free* two months a year.  [/quote]

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