Why do people say teachers make so little? (degree, principal, counselor)
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I completely agree with you. I do however think when it is an ALL women work environment this is worst/more apparent.
I've been thinking about something you said earlier about the work environment feeling lonely when you're around kids all day and then extending that thinking to the gender skew in the profession. In all the schools I've been and in my courses so far, it's pretty much all female with maybe one or two males.
Mine's a pretty good male-to-female ratio, but it's due to the specific type of program, and not really a standard setup.
I do choose to buy a lot out of pocket, but I don't have to. If I quit purchasing my own materials and resources, I could still teach...just not as effectively.
Not that it matters, one way or another (anyone who goes into teaching assuming the profession garners respect better have some other reason that it's personally reinforcing), but anyone who can read and has read your posts can easily see that this isn't likely the case.
Wrong!
I thought of being a teacher. Conveniently missed THAT post of mine?
You can a) believe me, or b) we can argue endlessly, adding 10 more pages to this already 100 page long thread, having gotten nowhere and pissed each other off.
I've been thinking about something you said earlier about the work environment feeling lonely when you're around kids all day and then extending that thinking to the gender skew in the profession. In all the schools I've been and in my courses so far, it's pretty much all female with maybe one or two males.
I have learned the VERY hard way this is not the best career if you ever want to get married. Not that you get a career to meet someone but tons of people do meet at work in co-ed professions. The hours are long and almost entire adult interactions at work are with other women teachers. I love the teaching part so much that I have focused only on the career part and woke up 15 years later and realized OMG I'm getting older and am still single. Balance your priorities so you too don't wake up to that very painful reality one day. I see teaching as a calling.
Niki, that is so true. I was in college when I met my first husband, then went into teaching, where I talked to women and kids all day long. Never met a man. Got divorced, left teaching, met men all the time, teaching is its own world, you get so into it. And like you said, fifteen years later, where did the time go?
The key to making more money as a teacher is to kill yourself the first three years, and get that Masters plus thirty as fast as you can. And don't do University of Phoenix, look for anything grant funded. And try to diversify yourself, if you teach elementary, do an ESL cert, or if you teach high school math, get a cert in something else, and with that master plus thirty, I encourage you to be forward thinking, what other career could you do with this degree if you want out of teaching.
I have learned the VERY hard way this is not the best career if you ever want to get married. Not that you get a career to meet someone but tons of people do meet at work in co-ed professions. The hours are long and almost entire adult interactions at work are with other women teachers. I love the teaching part so much that I have focused only on the career part and woke up 15 years later and realized OMG I'm getting older and am still single. Balance your priorities so you too don't wake up to that very painful reality one day. I see teaching as a calling.
Can you move up to middle or high school level? The are a lot more men in the upper grades.
Just a thought.
I have learned the VERY hard way this is not the best career if you ever want to get married. Not that you get a career to meet someone but tons of people do meet at work in co-ed professions. The hours are long and almost entire adult interactions at work are with other women teachers. I love the teaching part so much that I have focused only on the career part and woke up 15 years later and realized OMG I'm getting older and am still single. Balance your priorities so you too don't wake up to that very painful reality one day. I see teaching as a calling.
I'm a single straight male and I was thinking more along the lines of a other males who I can interact and talk about guy things around. Don't get me wrong, I don't mind interacting with female colleagues and I'm pretty close to several, but it feels a bit different when they're get married or get into serious relationships and have other obligations to attend to in their personal life.
I'm a single straight male and I was thinking more along the lines of a other males who I can interact and talk about guy things around. Don't get me wrong, I don't mind interacting with female colleagues and I'm pretty close to several, but it feels a bit different when they're get married or get into serious relationships and have other obligations to attend to in their personal life.
Excellent point! That must be challenging. I wonder why it's such a female dominated profession. Male teachers are critical to the education system as well.
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