Re:Nobody wants to teach anymore
by JackFr on Sunday August 21, 2022 @05:03PM
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> Why would someone choose to be a teacher making around the median when you could be a software engineer and make 3x as much?
Is that a serious question?
Why indeed? Maybe because a union job with a state pension (yes, defined benefit pension) that starts at 62K and has an advancing pay scale based only on education level and seniority (yes - job performance unrelated to pay) and very high job security ain’t bad place to be if you can get it.
(And also I suspect that a lot of the people getting those teaching jobs simply would not be able to get 200K software development jobs.)
Is that a serious question?
Why indeed? Maybe because a union job with a state pension (yes, defined benefit pension) that starts at 62K and has an advancing pay scale based only on education level and seniority (yes - job performance unrelated to pay) and very high job security ain’t bad place to be if you can get it.
(And also I suspect that a lot of the people getting those teaching jobs simply would not be able to get 200K software development jobs.)