Working on the PhD?
Not currently, I applied to a ton of private research gigs though, some with really decent pay.
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Another thing:
Teachers will tell you that they get āzero vacationā
āHotel, what the heck are you talking about are you crazyā
I am one of the guys hired to tell you that they are correct.
Teachers get plenty of time off but that is really all unpaid time. They work somewhere near 180 days and get paid for 180 days. They must be on duty ready for class at all of those 180 days except for true illness.
They donāt get to choose to go to a resort, or cruise, or hunting whenever they darn well please.
And at least in my town, and I would imagine most. Teachers must behave like a member of the teaching profession and act accordingly 24 hours a day, seven days a week anywhere in the world they happen to be.
Then there is the opposite, the contract workers, and higher ed who have to work summers just to stay alive.
Iāve worked for the government for 25 years (not as a teacher). And that is simply not the case.
Itās more true in the military, which gets some sort of pay raise, however small, every year, as well as increased pay on the pay charts based upon time in service, than in other government employment.
I definitely made more money every year that I was in the military.
But I agree, it is NOT true for county employees. Iāve been one of those for the last four years, and I definitely have NOT gotten a pay raise there every year.
True dat. And since they are tied to the school calendar, all their vacations are automatically more expensive.
I gave a talk at UH on Monday. I asked the person in charge if the students are coming back to campus. She said almost all of them are coming back but itās the professors who are not and are trying not to.
Really?
Geez.
So theyād rather teach by Zoom?
That seems strange.
Was that Renu ?
Its the non-sciences from what my department chair said. English, math, liberal arts, etc.
Science departments are obviously onboard with F2F due to labs
Put it like this, i did an online anytime, i uploaded the material and never touched it again. Only time students reached out was to reset an online exam.
Think about how lazy and out of shape a lot of professors areā¦ and it pays exactly the same as F2F
Professors need to go back to the classroom. They have tenure and are uppity and it does suck to not have them in person unless they are gonna give easier grades in exchange for their laziness.
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I wish I was a teacher despite what yāall are saying. The reason is going back to school to get an alt cert. I wish I majored in education.
Whatās a link to a good alt cert program and next time I change jobs , Iāll look into it. Iād love summers off and extra holidays. We sold a house and she was a teacher and went to Europe in the summer for weeks. She did only leave bc she has 3 kids and the husband said it was ok bc he made more money so again women in marriage are given opportunities to quit where the guys mostly canāt unless she makes the big money and is willing but most women want the guy working.
Dude ill show you my pre-pandemic college reports and graph it through 2022, across all three of our campuses it looks like a motorcycle ramp. Across the board grades went up, no coincidence.
I go back to F2F and all of a sudden the 30s, 40s and 50s start popping back up in my gradebook.
Texas teachers is solid, alt cert is really easy, just time consuming. You get payed more with an alternative cert too.
Say a teacher pays into teacher retirement for 30 years and then retires from teaching, but then gets another job at say age 52 and works until they are 70 ā all the while paying into social security. Are you saying, that once retired, they canāt get what they paid into SS if they choose teacher retirement and conversely, they couldnāt get their teacher retirement, that they paid into for 30 years, if they take their social security they paid into for 18 years? That doesnāt seem fair at all.
A guy can serve in the military for 20+ years and retire, getting full retirement immediately, then work and pay social security and when retired get both SS and military retirement.
Yeah, if a teacher retires at 50 with 30 years experience and then works in the private sector for 20 years, he or she would get TRS plus Social Security.
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Not only that, but in the military, we donāt āchooseā between the two.
We pay into social security while in the military, and that all counts towards our later social security benefits.
Not sure where this āchoosingā thing came from. Is that really true in teaching?
I canāt imagine that is true if they are paying Social Security taxes and working. If they are, they should be able to draw BOTH their social security and their teacher retirement. If thatās not the case, then somebody in Congress needs to change that.
Most military retirees, as you say, enjoy a post military career, and end up drawing a military pension, social security, and whatever retirement they may get from their civilian career.
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