What do you earn?

[verreauxi]

I still think teaching is a good gig. Elementary school teachers can make decent money but the time off to work ratio is great, as you have three months of summer, plus two weeks at christmas, plus spring break. My mom used to teach high school Spanish, she would spend most of the summer traveling. If you can deal with the kids (and she had good luck doing so), it's a great job and one where, in principle, you can make a difference. I just checked the salaries for k-12 teachers in our town and they are decent, starting at 55K per year and going up. That said, it all depends on where you live as some districts would be a very tough gig, due to either the students or, more increasingly these days, the idiotic right-wing Christian nationalist parents who want to ban books, common sense, and education more generally.

 

[JLW]

Are you a buoy?

You could say that as i don't pay any tax

 

[DualityNSNO]

You could say that as i don't pay any tax

So the secret to making a ton of money is not to work hard nor smart, but to dodge tax?

 

[tommye]

Whilst money does make life a lot easier, mental health always take priority when picking a new job. What's the point in earning a fortune if you are permanently miserable.

This.

Took a 20% pay cut when leaving a job/company I hated just before Covid hit and moved back to my old company where I'd spent many happy years.

I earn enough to be happy, keep the family happy and not have to worry. The 20% was worth every penny for my mental well being.

Always work to live and not live to work.
Your life will be so much better for it.

 

[JLW]

So the secret to making a ton of money is not to work hard nor smart, but to dodge tax?

Haha i don't dodge tax mate i am not liable to pay tax if i work 180 days out of the UK (Offshore)

My rotation is 5 weeks on 5 weeks off.

Havent paid 1p tax in 16 years

 

[wm02]

My brother works in the US and gets 15 days I think. I could be wrong but what I can tell from him is that it also depends on length of service, i.e. the longer you work at a place the more holiday they give you. He also seems to have an arrangement with his boss where his boss just lets him take paid time off outside of annual leave. Not sure if that's widely done in the US generally.

I’m in the US. My first job started at three weeks of vacation leave. Picked up an extra week of vacation every year or so until it maxed out at six weeks. Also, the whole company was closed between Christmas and New Year’s.
I’ve changed jobs but now have five weeks vacation which is decent though I really miss that freebie week after Christmas

 

[JimmyJeffers]

I’m

I still think teaching is a good gig. Elementary school teachers can make decent money but the time off to work ratio is great, as you have three months of summer, plus two weeks at christmas, plus spring break. My mom used to teach high school Spanish, she would spend most of the summer traveling. If you can deal with the kids (and she had good luck doing so), it's a great job and one where, in principle, you can make a difference. I just checked the salaries for k-12 teachers in our town and they are decent, starting at 55K per year and going up. That said, it all depends on where you live as some districts would be a very tough gig, due to either the students or, more increasingly these days, the idiotic right-wing Christian nationalist parents who want to ban books, common sense, and education more generally.

Mate of mine started teaching at a high school and I swear he aged about 5 years in 6 months. Depends massively on the school you are at. He said morale where he was was absolutely rock bottom. Sounded grim. He quit to take a manual min wage job and was happy again.
Think it can be a thankless job at times and have a lot of respect for people that do this.

 

[tommye]

I’m

Mate of mine started teaching at a high school and I swear he aged about 5 years in 6 months. Depends massively on the school you are at. He said morale where he was was absolutely rock bottom. Sounded grim. He quit to take a manual min wage job and was happy again.
Think it can be a thankless job at times and have a lot of respect for people that do this.

Couldn't pay me enough to stand in front of a class full of angry at the world teens for 7hrs a day.


There would be carnage and I'd be surprised if I lasted a day
lollollol

 

[wm02]

Couldn't pay me enough to stand in front of a class full of angry at the world teens for 7hrs a day.


There would be carnage and I'd be surprised if I lasted a day
lollollol

Have a friend who was canned for calling his ninth graders “useless sh***”

 

[Amokachi1995]

The measure should be done on a household rather than individual basis. Any income I have is hoovered up by the family.

 

[tommye]

Have a friend who was canned for calling his ninth graders “useless sh***”

Man after my own heart.
They would at least learn some new swear words and high grade insults in the hour or two I'd last there

 

[Kurt.]

The measure should be done on a household rather than individual basis. Any income I have is hoovered up by the family.

You’re the son of @Joey66 and I claim my £10

 

[Kurt.]

Man after my own heart.
They would at least learn some new swear words and high grade insults in the hour or two I'd last there

“Todays first lesson….. get yer rizzla out”

 

[DualityNSNO]

This.

Took a 20% pay cut when leaving a job/company I hated just before Covid hit and moved back to my old company where I'd spent many happy years.

I earn enough to be happy, keep the family happy and not have to worry. The 20% was worth every penny for my mental well being.

Always work to live and not live to work.
Your life will be so much better for it.

You took a further cut afterwards I believe. Wasn't pay though.

 

[tommye]

“Todays first lesson….. get yer rizzla out”

The yoot today are highly proficient in drug use by the age of 12.

Kids these days are on weed vapes in school.
Teachers are oblivious.

It's just everything else associated with life they struggle with