“You don’t do it for the money.” I hear this everywhere education and the development of children is involved. I have heard it at summer camp year after year where the highest earned salary of a councilor is 2,500 for 12 weeks of 10 days on 18 hours off. I have heard it at ski resorts by they ski instructors, and I have heard it form almost every single one of my teachers. When looking at an educator you can usually be assured that they know what they are doing and are good at it. The kids may disagree vehemently with that statement but there is know way teacher would even thing about teaching if they didn’t love it and have a passion for it.
The teachers at my school were generally lucky. The secretary had one the lottery and donated his salary back into the school. My English teacher Jr. year was married to a Dunkin Donuts core corporate worker. My history teacher was married to a stare football player and was previously a lawyer. See most educators can go into education because they don’t need to worry about money. Most teachers either have a back up plan or they are teaching after a previously successful career.
There are however those teacher who are single and straight out of high college. My freshman English teacher was a chipper sight at school fall of my freshman year. She had a smile on her face and excited to teach. She had no illusions as to the difficulty of teaching. However as the year wore on the smile ran away from her face, she was tired, and she was snappy. At the end of four years she was one of the least liked teachers at the school because of how strict and cheerless she was. But she still loves teaching and still loves her kids.
These are examples from one of the top prep schools in Massachusetts. My elementary school teachers all lived well off lives but it was not because of their teacher’s salary. Our teaches would tell us stories of their lives apartments before they got married, some worked part time in other places like a Dunkin Donuts or as a waitress. few of them finished paying off their student loans before they were forty. No teacher salaries are low but they have been kept at a “reasonable place” by teachers unions.
My Dream is to earn my PhD. In education and Childhood development and open a school. So why am I studying to be an engineer? To be perfectly honest it for the money. I want to get a good financial and social economic standing before I endevor into a field that is not so kind. Because I don’t want to have to worry about money I am going to get a footing first while I still can.
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