its always been a dirty little secret that teachers actually get well compensated, that military service pays far higher then similar work in the private sector, that skill-less desk sitters can manage to afford the best of everything....
but I know.....they "earned" it so there...
I’m a teacher in Los Angeles and I have to agree: I have never complained about the pay. The expectations they have of us are ridiculous, and if I actually did everything they say I should be doing, I’d literally be working 80 hours a week (except in summer, when they actually do want us still working and training as much as possible, but they can’t force us). But I don’t complain about the pay. In fact, increasingly I’d take a cut in pay if they would lay off the pressure for me to perform miracles for 180 kids a year, put on a dazzling show every day, several times a day, a new show the following day, to magically turn kids with no academic interest into little Einsteins. The pressure is constant and wildly unreasonable, and I am beginning to really hate the job. But yeah... the pay is not the problem. The cost of living in Los Angeles is a bit of a problem, but... (sigh)
”.... that military service pays far higher then similar work in the private sector...”
Based on my experience, I would have to disagree with that part of your statement.
Dang! This must be the 900th time you dogged the military...