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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a GS-15 fed. Ph.D. social scientists with 8 years experience make less as a GS-9 at my federal agency than a first year teach with a BA and a license at my son's school. The first several years I was in a "prestigious" fellowship after grad school, I lived in subsidized public housing and had two additional jobs, one under the table as a personal assistant so I could pay my student loans and another job at night and on weekends working in public health outreach (think going to gay clubs and handing out condoms and giving HS students at a HS clinic pregnancy and STI tests). Everyone thought I "made" it and I was living in a closet in my grad school's studio apartment in Columbia Heights.

My mom, brother and several other family members are teachers. With the exception of my mom who worked nights and weekends as a manager at KMart, no one else had a second job or was considered underpaid where we lived. And they get paid a lot less than DMV teachers and my mom has a highly skilled, highly sought after specialty and two masters degrees and national board certification as a teacher. [/quote]

My guess is that they lived in an area with a much lower cost of living because nearly every young MCPS teacher I know and a lot of veterans have second jobs or frequent side hustles. Most can’t afford to live in MoCo if they want to buy a house. Commuting from another county when you have evening chaperone responsibilities like plays or concerts, Open House,  or BTSN night and still have to be at work early the next day sucks. All of those events should be on Fridays so that teachers have the next day to recover a bit. [/quote]

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