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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP I'm with you. I really wish I had focused on kid friendly careers and mommy tracked myself. [b]I wish I was a teacher. I just wish job hours and school hours went together more. [/quote][/b]

Huh?  I'm a teacher and I work from 8-5:30 everyday.  Most of my colleagues do too.  I am actually only paid for 8:50-3:50 but there is no way to get the job done during those hours.  Yes, you have summers off but I have to work in the summers too to make ends meet.  I pay for my kids to be in before and after care like everyone else.  I get one personal day per year.  Teaching is not a flexible job.  Now, if you could work PT but after taxes, etc, it isn't even financially worth it.  Heck, after taxes, FT teaching is barely worth it.  I've been teaching for 5 years and after taxes, pension, insurance, etc etc, I net just over $1000 every 2 weeks.  Yes, really.  I did just finish paying off my Master's degree though!   :D [/quote]

+1  I'm not sure why everyone thinks teaching is cake walk.  Especially when you first start out, you spend many many hours learning, taking required classes, setting up, planning, etc.  And the pay is not fabulous.  And, after spending your day with children, it's not so motivating coming home to more kids, especially if they are cranky/had a bad day.  I'm lucky in that I'm a Speech Pathologist that works for the schools and can easily go part time and also get some side work doing private practice if I wanted.  Most teachers that I know cannot go part time.[/quote]

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