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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This thread says a whole lot about DCUM women.  To y’all, it’s all about money.  You say 280k isn’t a lot of money.  You scoff on this thread about teaching not being a real career, but on the next thread you’ll complain about your kids’ teachers being incompetent.  Why would anyone competent WANT to go into teaching if the mothers of their students have no respect for them?

I agree with the poster who says that you’re all just cogs in the wheel.  Yes, some of you are highly paid cogs, but you are cogs nonetheless.  Your work is meaningless to the broader society and serves only to allow you to accumulate more material things at the expense of your inner well being and time with your children.  The cliche “no one’s tombstone ever says I wish I worked more” is absolutely true.  You just don’t get it, but one day you will.

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Spot on.

I worked for almost 20 years toward my teaching career. (Yes, DCUM: it’s a career, and one I took very seriously.) I did what we all have to do to survive in the classroom: I gave up my own family, my hobbies, my free time, and my happiness. And I was GOOD, the type of good that every DCUMer wants for their own children. [b]And then I landed in a bad place and had to back off.[/b]

That’s when I realized that my career shouldn’t be more important as my family. (And to your point: I realized I was working too hard for parents who don’t respect me.) I’m a worse teacher now, but a better parent and a better human.

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Interesting how all the “cog in the wheel” SAHMs were disillusioned by their bad job situations and then realized the meaning of life is to not work (but be supported by someone who is working).

Some of us have jobs that are pretty decent and don’t need to give them up in order to have a decent life. Sure, we may not be saving the world, but we are contributing to our household, participating in the adult world, using our brain analytically, etc.[/quote]

She’s still a teacher, moron.  Just a worse one.  Maybe if you ask nicely she can teach you how to read?[/quote]

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