Anonymous
Post 07/13/2016 19:05     Subject: Thankless/underrated jobs
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I don't think being a teacher is a thankless job these days. It's a very demanding, draining job, but everyone I know appreciates teachers and shows it.

Different story for those doing the grunt work of taking care of the elderly, though.


Agreed. It's a valuable, hard, demanding job... and I knew as soon as I saw this thread that 90%+ of it would be teachers talking about how hard their job is and how undervalued they are. I am so grateful for wonderful teachers, but the martyrdom of an outspoken minority is getting really old.

The pay rates are pretty competitive too when you start to dig into real numbers.


Competitive compared to what?
Anonymous
Post 07/13/2016 19:03     Subject: Thankless/underrated jobs
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Dentist.


huh? I love my dentist and he's well compensated. Not sure how it's underrated or thankless.


Agree. Pp is nuts


+2

Dentists make PLENTY. It's a guaranteed ticket into the upper middle class, if not outright wealthy. Much less schooling than a doctor and many more years earning money.


+1

I just left a dentist that upsold everything; and now many dentists do braces, so almost instant cash. Plus, far fewer people have dental coverage than medical - so the dentists make bank while the doctors get screwed a lot.
Anonymous
Post 07/13/2016 14:14     Subject: Thankless/underrated jobs
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Dentist.


huh? I love my dentist and he's well compensated. Not sure how it's underrated or thankless.


Agree. Pp is nuts


+2

Dentists make PLENTY. It's a guaranteed ticket into the upper middle class, if not outright wealthy. Much less schooling than a doctor and many more years earning money.
Anonymous
Post 07/13/2016 14:11     Subject: Thankless/underrated jobs
Anonymous wrote:I don't think being a teacher is a thankless job these days. It's a very demanding, draining job, but everyone I know appreciates teachers and shows it.

Different story for those doing the grunt work of taking care of the elderly, though.


Agreed. It's a valuable, hard, demanding job... and I knew as soon as I saw this thread that 90%+ of it would be teachers talking about how hard their job is and how undervalued they are. I am so grateful for wonderful teachers, but the martyrdom of an outspoken minority is getting really old.

The pay rates are pretty competitive too when you start to dig into real numbers.
Anonymous
Post 07/13/2016 14:08     Subject: Re:Thankless/underrated jobs
SAHM mom with 4 kids and workaholic, travelling DH


Nope, try again.


Haha, proved my point! I was a teacher -- it was easy. teachers reuse their material from year to year and most just scan over the homework.
But SAHM: up at 6AM, childcare, cooking, cleaning, repairing house, car maintenance, insurance, bills, landscape, more cooking, the grocery store, driving, more childcare, bathing, feeding, entertaining, listening to the endless drama, dinner, after school activities, more driving, doctor's appointments, ER visits, school paperwork, homework, more cleaning ...more laundry, dishes, more cooking and down at 11:30PM for that last load ...
And all this time people think you are just chillin'



Lady, if you are underappreciated that is your own fault for not instilling that value in your children.

I do 90% of the shit that you do (less childcare/entertainment -- but all the other home stuff) plus kill it at work, and I'm not whining about it. And SAHMs are so loud and demanding that the rest of the world stop and appreciate their "skills" all the time that it's really hard to put it in the same category as the other professions (true jobs) named on this thread.
Anonymous
Post 07/13/2016 14:03     Subject: Thankless/underrated jobs
Government workers.
Anonymous
Post 07/13/2016 13:57     Subject: Thankless/underrated jobs
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Dentist.


huh? I love my dentist and he's well compensated. Not sure how it's underrated or thankless.


Agree. Pp is nuts
Anonymous
Post 07/13/2016 13:56     Subject: Thankless/underrated jobs
Restaurant workers. Thankless and low pay.
Anonymous
Post 07/13/2016 13:54     Subject: Thankless/underrated jobs
I don't think being a teacher is a thankless job these days. It's a very demanding, draining job, but everyone I know appreciates teachers and shows it.

Different story for those doing the grunt work of taking care of the elderly, though.
Anonymous
Post 07/13/2016 13:02     Subject: Re:Thankless/underrated jobs
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
SAHM mom with 4 kids and workaholic, travelling DH


Nope, try again.


Haha, proved my point! I was a teacher -- it was easy. teachers reuse their material from year to year and most just scan over the homework.
But SAHM: up at 6AM, childcare, cooking, cleaning, repairing house, car maintenance, insurance, bills, landscape, more cooking, the grocery store, driving, more childcare, bathing, feeding, entertaining, listening to the endless drama, dinner, after school activities, more driving, doctor's appointments, ER visits, school paperwork, homework, more cleaning ...more laundry, dishes, more cooking and down at 11:30PM for that last load ...
And all this time people think you are just chillin'


Teachers who are also parents also get up early, cook, clean, repair their houses, maintain their cars, deal with insurance, pay bill, landscape, go to the grocery store, give children baths, take their kids to the ER, fill in school paperwork . . . and then after they put the kids to bed they start grading and creating lesson plans.

I would agree 100% that being a SAHM is usually harder than being a teacher with no kids. But I think that barring special needs kids or very specific circumstances (e.g. a SAH spouse), teaching full time and parenting kids, is as hard or harder than SAH with the same combination of kids.
Anonymous
Post 07/13/2016 13:01     Subject: Re:Thankless/underrated jobs
Librarian. Masters degree required. Low pay. Some jobs do not pay enough for rent. Yet, used and abused and sought after for their help and expertise. IN big law firms they are treated especially poorly by the lawyers who dwarf their meager salaries.
Anonymous
Post 07/13/2016 13:00     Subject: Re:Thankless/underrated jobs
Anonymous wrote:I was a public school teacher. Trust me, you would have wanted me to teach your kids. I was told to stop working so hard or make any efforts to be creative. The negativity wore me down, and I wanted to be among innovative colleagues who valued hard work instead of perpetuating a culture of mediocrity. I am now working in a private school with like-minded professionals. I was willing to be paid less to make this kind of shift.


Where do you teach? I want my kids to go to school there!
Anonymous
Post 07/13/2016 12:57     Subject: Thankless/underrated jobs
Anonymous wrote:Dentist.


huh? I love my dentist and he's well compensated. Not sure how it's underrated or thankless.
Anonymous
Post 07/13/2016 12:56     Subject: Re:Thankless/underrated jobs
Anonymous wrote:Some teachers work hard, but others are really really lazy.


This is true for any profession. People just like to pick on teachers for some reason.
Anonymous
Post 07/13/2016 12:50     Subject: Thankless/underrated jobs
Dentist.