Re:American Employers Are Hung Up on Hiring PhDs
by stirfrykitty on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @02:56PM
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And if you ever get to a point where you are financially secure yet want a non-stressful job, you could always teach something like Yearbook at a HS. I know a guy who did this. He cashed out of his IT job after making almost a million. He wife is a nurse. He got tired of the burnout, on-call rotation, and got his teaching certificate, got hired at a high school teaching Yearbook creation and media. He's off 3 months of the year, gets paid for 12, and is living the easy life. He works from 0730-1530 daily, no nights, no weekends, no tests to grade, no stupid standardization tests, nothing. Literally easy street.
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Re:American Employers Are Hung Up on Hiring PhDs
by coliveira on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @03:46PM
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There is no teaching job that pays for 12 months. All HS jobs for teaching pay only for the months you teach. What some schools do is to spread out the payments through the year, but the pay is the same.
Re:American Employers Are Hung Up on Hiring PhDs
by stirfrykitty on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @03:50PM
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That's what was meant. You can take the 9 or 12 month option. No one takes the 9 month option. I spent 5 years working for schools. I took the 12 month option. But the time off is fantastic. Nothing like the look on my wife's face when I'm not getting out of bed for three months to go slog. I miss the time off.
Re:American Employers Are Hung Up on Hiring PhDs
by black-tea on Thursday March 28, 2019 @04:23AM
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What does "teaching Yearbook" mean?
Re:American Employers Are Hung Up on Hiring PhDs
by stirfrykitty on Friday March 29, 2019 @09:16AM
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Most high schools have a Yearbook program lead by a certified teacher. That teacher does nothing but ensure photos/video are taken, gathered, and compiled in the form of a Yearbook, which is sold to the students. The classes are focused on learning photography, video, editing of the results. There is a tangible evidence book at the end of it. Kids love it. That teacher deals with kids who WANT to be in that class, so everyone is having fun. Skills are learned. Everyone goes home happy.