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Post 09/06/2017 23:16     Subject: How long did it take you to get past 12 weeks PTO a year?
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Anonymous wrote:3 posts in and I'm already thankful I chose teaching. Around 15 weeks off from year 1 if you can put up with admin, parents, and students!


I was a teacher for 10 years and now work in an industry where I get only 4 weeks plus 10 sick days. It's actually a much better fit for me and my family. No evening or weekend work and a much less stressful working day (plus a later start time and the possibility to telework sometimes so I don't have to pay someone else to stay with my kids in the morning before the school bus comes when my husband travels for work). There are great things about the teaching profession and you should definitely do it if it brings you joy. But, the schedule is a lot less favorable in reality than it seems when you compare it on paper to other schedules.


Oh I've had other jobs...I'll take teaching every time. 8-3 and out the door except for a meeting now and then, no work whatsoever for 2.5 straight months, and 3-4 weeks throughout the school year, and sick days on top of that. My struggles are administrative stuff, of which there's a ton, but regarding the additional time I get with my spouse and kids...it's a blessing.


Where is this magical teaching job? And how can I transfer to your school?


I teach Pre-K, so I don't have grading (although lots of parents ask for homework anyway due to brainwashing by higher grades). I have a ton of assessment, though; I've just learned to move through it quickly. There are plenty of teachers that don't leave for hours after the kids are gone and who spend additional hours at home each day on the assessment and lesson planning. I'm just not willing to be one of them.
Anonymous
Post 09/06/2017 23:13     Subject: How long did it take you to get past 12 weeks PTO a year?
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Anonymous wrote:WTF?
I've only had 26 vacation days plus whatever sick days, national holidays and some floating holidays.
many companies cap out at 30 days, maybe Club Fed doesn't cap it and you get an additional week each 10 years of work.


The max for Feds is 26 days per year and that's after 10 years of service, I think. And you can only carry over 240 hours (30 days) year-to-year. Club Fed?


And with maximum yield of leave, and a carryover of 30 days, are you still with only have 11 weeks. Where is this 12 week job coming from? Or is it PTO? Because Feds have separate vacation and sick leave.
Anonymous
Post 09/06/2017 23:11     Subject: How long did it take you to get past 12 weeks PTO a year?
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Anonymous wrote:3 posts in and I'm already thankful I chose teaching. Around 15 weeks off from year 1 if you can put up with admin, parents, and students!


I was a teacher for 10 years and now work in an industry where I get only 4 weeks plus 10 sick days. It's actually a much better fit for me and my family. No evening or weekend work and a much less stressful working day (plus a later start time and the possibility to telework sometimes so I don't have to pay someone else to stay with my kids in the morning before the school bus comes when my husband travels for work). There are great things about the teaching profession and you should definitely do it if it brings you joy. But, the schedule is a lot less favorable in reality than it seems when you compare it on paper to other schedules.


Oh I've had other jobs...I'll take teaching every time. 8-3 and out the door except for a meeting now and then, no work whatsoever for 2.5 straight months, and 3-4 weeks throughout the school year, and sick days on top of that. My struggles are administrative stuff, of which there's a ton, but regarding the additional time I get with my spouse and kids...it's a blessing.


Where is this magical teaching job? And how can I transfer to your school?


You teach something like geography, and totally just phone it in then using Google Maps and National Geographic's. You make sure all your tests are Scantron, you don't grade homework for grades so you can just throw it away, and life is grand. Not PP, but no many teachers and my family, and we all know this type of teacher. They work for the summer vacation.
Anonymous
Post 09/06/2017 23:02     Subject: How long did it take you to get past 12 weeks PTO a year?
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Anonymous wrote:3 posts in and I'm already thankful I chose teaching. Around 15 weeks off from year 1 if you can put up with admin, parents, and students!


I was a teacher for 10 years and now work in an industry where I get only 4 weeks plus 10 sick days. It's actually a much better fit for me and my family. No evening or weekend work and a much less stressful working day (plus a later start time and the possibility to telework sometimes so I don't have to pay someone else to stay with my kids in the morning before the school bus comes when my husband travels for work). There are great things about the teaching profession and you should definitely do it if it brings you joy. But, the schedule is a lot less favorable in reality than it seems when you compare it on paper to other schedules.


Oh I've had other jobs...I'll take teaching every time. 8-3 and out the door except for a meeting now and then, no work whatsoever for 2.5 straight months, and 3-4 weeks throughout the school year, and sick days on top of that. My struggles are administrative stuff, of which there's a ton, but regarding the additional time I get with my spouse and kids...it's a blessing.


Where is this magical teaching job? And how can I transfer to your school?
Anonymous
Post 09/06/2017 22:58     Subject: How long did it take you to get past 12 weeks PTO a year?
Anonymous wrote:WTF?
I've only had 26 vacation days plus whatever sick days, national holidays and some floating holidays.
many companies cap out at 30 days, maybe Club Fed doesn't cap it and you get an additional week each 10 years of work.


The max for Feds is 26 days per year and that's after 10 years of service, I think. And you can only carry over 240 hours (30 days) year-to-year. Club Fed?
Anonymous
Post 09/06/2017 12:11     Subject: How long did it take you to get past 12 weeks PTO a year?
My company tops at 6 weeks PTO (sick plus vacation).
Anonymous
Post 09/06/2017 11:46     Subject: Re:How long did it take you to get past 12 weeks PTO a year?
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Anonymous wrote:Um, never. My company offers 10 weeks once you have been here 15 years.


What industry, that is pretty sweet. Pto or annual leave with seperste sick.


PTO. You actually accrue 24 days a year (5 weeks) but you max out at 10 weeks total accumulated.


That's not really 10 weeks offered. You have accrued it over more than one year. 5 weeks is pretty common. The fact that apparently you stop accumulating if you have another 5 weeks unused is unusual. Most employers have a form of use-or-lose or maximum carry over from year-to-year, but it doesn't really mean you stop accumulating a current benefit.

We are at 26 days annual until five or seven years, becomes 28 days I think. Another number of sick days, which I can't remember.
Anonymous
Post 09/06/2017 11:42     Subject: How long did it take you to get past 12 weeks PTO a year?
Anonymous wrote:Is this for real? We top out at 8. I'm at 6 after 11 years.


That's actually great. The only people I know who started out at 6 were at universities and its not really something you can negotiate back into your benefits package when you leave because it wasn't a seniority thing.
Anonymous
Post 09/06/2017 11:38     Subject: How long did it take you to get past 12 weeks PTO a year?
Max of 6 weeks PTO. Can only carry over until March 31 of next year, then it evaporates.
Anonymous
Post 09/05/2017 22:05     Subject: How long did it take you to get past 12 weeks PTO a year?
26 yo. Got it.
Anonymous
Post 09/05/2017 14:51     Subject: Re:How long did it take you to get past 12 weeks PTO a year?
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Anonymous wrote:Um, never. My company offers 10 weeks once you have been here 15 years.


What industry, that is pretty sweet. Pto or annual leave with seperste sick.


PTO. You actually accrue 24 days a year (5 weeks) but you max out at 10 weeks total accumulated.
Anonymous
Post 09/05/2017 13:42     Subject: How long did it take you to get past 12 weeks PTO a year?
Is this for real? We top out at 8. I'm at 6 after 11 years.
Anonymous
Post 09/05/2017 12:32     Subject: How long did it take you to get past 12 weeks PTO a year?
we top out at 6
Anonymous
Post 09/05/2017 12:25     Subject: How long did it take you to get past 12 weeks PTO a year?
Professor salaried job but only 2 days a week of class 2 semesters a year?
Anonymous
Post 09/05/2017 12:24     Subject: How long did it take you to get past 12 weeks PTO a year?
WTF?
I've only had 26 vacation days plus whatever sick days, national holidays and some floating holidays.
many companies cap out at 30 days, maybe Club Fed doesn't cap it and you get an additional week each 10 years of work.