When I was 22, I laughed at anybody that was thinking about teaching as a career
When I was 32 I was making twice as much money as a teacher and laughing at them
When I was 42 I was making 4 times what a teacher was making but working 80 hours a week and missing my kids growing up
When I was 52 I was making about the same as teacher half my age, but I was still working twice as hard
I am 62 and wish I had gone into teaching, I am making less money than when I was 32, I am no where near retiring and i will probably die at my desk.
nice pay, nice benefits, holidays, vacations and summers off with your kids - congrats on a good career choice.
Duh - the 180 "contact days" ARE AFTER school vacations vacations and holidays - they actually have to work those 180 contract days! Again, you're not too bright!
Finally donkey$$- you got it...180 days of work for full years pay. Avg amount of work days/month (10 month school year)-18. And since you probably a HS PE teacher 4 hours work/day. See ya. Have a great day teaching duck-duck-goose
Since this all went way over your head, let me spell this out for you: No one ever inferred that teachers didn't work less days per year. And no one inferred that one could NOT make a good argument that for having worked less, that, furthered, teachers are paid (too) highly for less work (A point I actually agree with, because, as stated prior, I am NOT a TEACHER! I think all teachers and/or municipal jobs should either have lower wages AND great benefits/pensions, or vice versa, but NOT both - that was the way it used to be!). What you have entirely missed in this exchange is that the initial comment inferred that non teachers worked a lot more of the year than teachers than the ACTUAL difference bears out - that on an "apples to apples" basis, it's only a difference of ~50% vs ~65%. IE, that you had zero clue that the average non-teacher worker works only ~65% of the days of a year.
