Posted on 07/31/2022 3:33:27 PM PDT by grundle
An Ohio man recently quit his job as a teacher for a position at Walmart instead.
Seth Goshorn says the reason he switched jobs was simple: The Walmart role would pay $12,000 more.
He'll make $55,000 a year there before bonuses, compared to the $43,000 he made as a teacher after working 5.5 years in education, he told GMA.
Seth Goshorn didn't expect his post saying he got a new job at Walmart to go viral, but that's just what happened.
The 28-year-old Ohio man posted a TikTok video earlier this month in which he said he was quitting his teaching job to go work at Walmart instead.
"Leaving teaching after 6 years to go be a manager at Walmart and make more not using my degree," he wrote in the clip, which shows him wearing one Walmart uniform and holding up another.
Goshorn loves teaching, but told Good Morning America he changed jobs for one reason: the money.
"It was a lot better than I think people are used to and what people would expect," he said.
He'd worked in education for five and a half years, first as a reading tutor and then as a second-grade teacher, according to GMA. Last year, he made $43,000 teaching in Ohio's Stark County. Meanwhile, he said he'll make $55,000 a year before bonuses at a Walmart in Massillon, Ohio, as a stocking 2 coach, which includes ensuring delivery trucks are unloaded.
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Teachers don’t get paid much?
Who knew? That’s a shock.
There’s a cost to taking summers off.
ya but Walmart makes you work 12 months a year. teaching is what, 9 months?
And he still gets all those holidays and long summer and winter breaks?
I think that retail jobs during the holidays are a kind of hell on earth.
if only there were two powerful unions to get them more money.
oh wait.
Does Walmart have a pension?
A manager at Walmart would be like a school Principal but getting half the pay of a Principal
From Groomer to Greeter! Wise choice!
That's $4,777.77 a month.
Get another job during the summer and he's making about the same.
Good point. It’s not an apples to apples comparison of the two jobs, is it?
Maybe you could get a job there.
LOL, talk to anyone who was in the military, we rarely landed in a job similar to our college degree. I had a BBA in Public Accounting, and I was assigned to Air Defense Artillery (SHORAD - Short Range Air Defense). So much for the idea I was going to be a Finance Corps (that's "core", not "corpse") officer.
Worked out like a charm. My last eighteen months in Germany, I was the Battalion S-4, Supply Officer. I used my degree there, to the benefit of my battalion. Higher HQ knew they couldn't mess with us on financial matters, it was awesome.
Instead of commanding a desk for four years, I had a bevy of interesting and challenging assignments: platoon leader, executive officer, etc. Lived 4 years in a lovely town on the Mosel River, daily commute my last two years took me through the Urziger Wurzgarten vineyards.
And also opportunity. One of my high school teachers captained a fishing boat in Alaska in the summer. He made as much in 3 months as he did 6 months teaching. Of course he didn't mind work either.
Good teachers are rare and wonderful. People remember them for the rest of their lives. Good Walmart managers probably not so much. I wish him well in his new career.
“Does Walmart have a pension?”
No pension, but they do offer a 401K plan.
Typically, educators do quite well on their pension plans. 401K, not so much.
here abouts we have many teachers well over $100,000 a yer for HALF a year work....and that "work" includes movie days, conference days, teacher days plus all the other snow days etc that they get....
teachers may start out low but they go up very very fast....
never can be fired....
fabulous pensions....
The free market in action. That’s how it’s supposed to work.
Pipe down, Karen.
90+% are overpaid at minimum wage. Teachers and their unions are most responsible for the destruction of traditional American culture, not to mention the incredible dumbing down of our kids. I have zero sympathy for teachers as a whole.
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