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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]LMAO I do not make 80k. You just made up an arbitrary number of years and went with that number [/quote]

it wasn't totally arbitrary- you said you had multiple degrees, and had several years of experience teaching.  So I went with the 'masters plus 30 units' scale and assumed about 10 years of teaching experience.

But honestly- if you go with masters plus 30 units and assume 5 years of experience- you would be making about 63k, which would turn into 76k over 12 mos.  I still don't know entry level jobs (outside of biglaw) that employee people at 76k starting out.   [/quote]

Literally any “consultant” working in the Federal IT or Defense space makes more than this to start. And they top out a lot higher than teachers, and rarely have multiple degrees, and people don’t denigrate their livelihoods, even though anyone can do that job, unlike teaching.[/quote]

Thank you. I am a published writer, I am educated, and I excelled in my field. PP seems to think I’m demanding a six figure job with unlimited vacation but I am not, and what I am seeking, I’m qualified for. I will never understand the logic of treating the people in charge of educating your children as barely literate unemployable cretins. [/quote]

pushing back using facts and published salary tables against the statement that a 'teacher with multiple degrees and many years of experience' is making the same as most entry level jobs is hardly treating someone as a cretin.    The fact is, teachers do get the summers off.   In comparing the salaries, you have to take that into account.  Teachers use those summers for different things- some use them to be home with their kids thereby both gaining pleasure from being with their children and avoiding paying for expensive summer camp child care.   Some teachers use the summer to travel, and can get jobs as 'tour guide educational leaders' which means their travel is paid for.  Some teachers make a substantial additional income in the summer running the expensive child care camps, tutoring, what have you.   All of these are legitimate.   It isn't denigrating the profession to point this out.   Simillarly, a teacher is contracted to work 7.5 hours a day, that includes a duty free lunch period of 35 minutes.  I work for the federal government- I am required to have hours of 8 hours and 45 minutes a day, which includes a lunch period of 45 minutes for which I do not get paid.  Much like teachers, as a professional, I also routinely exceed my 'scheduled' hours without additional compensation- but my scheduled hours start longer.   [/quote]

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