Comment on 31-year-old teacher quit her job. Now she works at Costco—and boosted her income by 50%: ‘I've never been happier' (these are not feel good stories, this is sad)

Hazdaz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• krakenx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The problem is living in a society that doesn’t educate it’s people.

  source

  • Hazdaz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m not disputing that and I’m not saying that teachers shouldn’t be paid more. You’re missing what I am saying. I am simply stating that if money is a consideration (and it is for just about everyone), then you should be looking up what jobs pay in a certain field before you even start your studies. And this goes for more than just teaching. I hear this all the time of how people are surprised that X field pays like shit… well how the fuck did you get through 2 or 4 or more years of school and not look up what the job prospects are?!?

    source
• dragonflyteaparty@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yeah, that’s the advice. Just no one be a teacher. Great! Now what are all the kids going to do to get into their own fields?

  source

  • seejur@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Simple, all to the mines! Uranium is not gonna mine itself isn’t it? /s

    source
  • Hazdaz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s the beauty of supply and demand. If the supply of teachers goes down, then at some point the pay has to go up to fill that need.

    source

    • HessiaNerd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Except it doesn’t. The state controls the pay rate by law and people who pass those laws are also heavily invested in private education (see Devos). As a result they put more pressure on fewer teachers to push out an inferior product to drive them into private education.

      Your bullshit idealized supply and demand curves don’t work in the real world. Not when the whole market is tilted and closed off.

      source

      • Hazdaz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yeah, except it does in states that run properly which is why my state has some of the highest paid teachers in the entire country. Maybe leave whatever shithole state you live in if you can’t control what your legislators vote on. Or you know, get off your lazy ass and vote come next election cycle.

        source
    • Krauerking@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Uh no… the plan seems to be to replace teachers with home schooling using automated systems that have much more controllable curriculum. There is no longer a rush to replace with real people when automation is so cheap.

      Also if everyone all looked at only the job that paid well that job would no longer pay well and it would be a shitty society while everyone figured out how to live without doctors, chefs, and all kinds of other roles where constant passing of knowledge is needed to keep things running smoothly.

      source
• andros_rex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  And people have stopped going into education. I graduated with my BS with one other teacher in my field. So many, many schools in my state are just going without.

  Why do we not want to encourage folks to develop the next generation? Do you really want a society of illiterate adults? Are you going to complain when the person at the cash register can’t count to twenty?

  source