"What'chu mean you only have two jobs, you lazy lima bean."
"What'chu mean you only have two jobs, you lazy lima bean."
People gotta complain about how unfair life is - particularly gov’t workers.
I am thankful not to have to live on 80 grand. Couldn’t even imagine it with 4 kids and a wife, catholic school, college next year for the oldest, food, housing, clothes, entertainment. Well hopefully I never have to find out. I feel sorry for those having to live like that.
And the really amazing part of this is that they probably honestly believe it.
Your ends are your problem.
I’m willing to help* ensure 1500 calories a day and a roof over your head.
Beyond that, what you earn is between you and your employer pursuant to “a thing (your services, in this case) is worth exactly what another is willing to pay for it (>$80k/yr for mundane teaching is d@mn good pay).”
(* - as in voluntary charity, not gun-to-the-head fiscal confiscation from those trying to make their own ends meet.)
Resin up the bow for the obligatory, mournful sounding violin background music. Pass the tissues please.
Julia Satterthwaite
@jsatterthwaite
English and journalism teacher at Rochester High School, adviser of The Talon and http://rochestertalon.com , teacher leader, life-long learner, wife and mother.
Royal Oak, Mich.
They ought to be able to take the 80k, outsource the actual teaching to an illegal for 30k cash, stay home and watch TV, and still live pretty well.
Whether or not you feel teachers deserve the pay they get or not, it is just a lot more expensive today to make ends meet. If a couple makes a combined income of around $130K a yr. they probably have enough to more than make ends meet. If they have two or more children, two cars and a pet, that will certainly change the equation. They won’t have a lot left over for extras but likely won’t be going behind. Most couples don’t start out making that much money. It’s usually later in their careers that they might and if they send their children to college that can be a huge chunk of change (ask me how I know). I tell people, I could have had three nice houses. Instead, I have three nice kids (and lots of grandkids). I wouldn’t change a thing but we pinched pennies always to make ends meet. Now more than ever in retirement. Where you live is also a big factor in how far your money goes.
It’s my experience that teachers can be the whiniest people on earth. They will stand right in front of someone who works in the private sector for $30,000 and two weeks’ vacation a year, and they will complain that teachers are “underpaid” and that their two months off “went by SO fast” and “wasn’t enough.” They also get every holiday known to man off, winter break, spring break, etc.
What gets me, too, is when they say things like, “Celebrities and athletes make millions and teachers only make peanuts. The salaries should be reversed.” Just how do they propose to switch the salaries of teachers with celebrities and athletes? Do they even understand how these things work?
I never met a teacher who didn’t think they were paid enough. Always bitching. So To make ends meet they all started working the latest greatest get rich MLM plans preying on friends and family and friends of family.
Karen Malsbury
Business Owner at Forever Inspired MI
Greater Detroit AreaEducation Management
Business Teacher
Rochester High School
January 2004 – Present (11 years 11 months)
My HS Latin teacher used to go to down South for the Summer and do a stint as a DI with the US Marines. But, as one might guess, he wasn't a lazy SOB.
In the past year, business and marketing teacher Mrs. Karen Malsbury went through an intense weight loss program at V.I.P Fitness, where she dropped an impressive 22 pounds in just 30 days. Mrs. Malsbury described her average day in training as strict and time consuming.
“To complete the fitness challenge, I was required to attend a strict boot camp 5 times a week and in addition, exercise on my own daily for 30 minutes,” Mrs. Malsbury said. “ I also had to eat clean with no processed food, follow the diet plan, and weigh in weekly to lose the desired 20 pounds in 4 weeks.”
Mrs. Malsbury explained that an injury made her unable to exercise for a while.
“I am very pleased with the results, “Mrs. Malsbury said. “The program has inspired me to do another challenge, which is to tone up further and get a beach body ready.?
http://rochestertalon.com/2286/feature/mrs-malsburys-fitness-training-yields-amazing-results/
V.I.P. Fitness - $500 for six weeks
$80 k for only 9 months of work, plenty of paid vacations, and all the kids you can molest??
I’m self-employed, and I have “high deducible” health insurance - I pay about $5,000 a year for a $15,000 a year deductible policy It costs me $80-$250 for a doctor’s office visit, and minimum $2500 to walk into the emergency room.
So one day I’m listening to these two teachers complain that their co-pay went from $25 to $35, and they’re ticked off about it. Their health insurance benefits cost the school district about $24,000 each.
And it’s not like kids are graduating from the public schools able to read and write.
Once on the government teat, there’s no end to it.
In her defense, $80k is borderline in California. A good friend just moved out of California. He was making over $80k with a wife and kids and they were living paycheck to paycheck. He got transfer to Missouri at the same pay and within 3 months paid off all debts and are loving life swearing to never move back to California.
That’s because, like government, they’re overspending their income.
long time ago (20 years?) read that people making under 100k a year were still living paycheck to paycheck. Way of life for many with champagne taste and a beer wallet.