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When I was young teachers would always complain about their salary and maybe they were right to do so. So naturally I never seriously considered teaching as a career field. Don't know why do many teachers complain about their pay. The fact that is doesn't pay much relative to the education needed is far from a secret.

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Teaching is generally a profession for two kinds of people:

1. The people who inexplicably consider education to be their 'calling'.

2. The people who sleepwalk into education because they're not really good at anything and being in school is the only thing they know.

Pay doesn't factor hugely in their decisions to enter the field, but reality starts to kick in eventually.

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Everyone I knew who went into teaching, except one, fell into camp 2. Most of them are people you wouldn't want around your kids.

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There's a weird bias people have for women where they just assume they're automatically good around kids.

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The only good, effective teachers I ever had were men who'd retired early and decided to teach because they were bored in retirement.

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It doesn't pay much relative to the education needed because the very same individuals who are sneeding about pay enjoy putting more and more barriers and advanced degree requirements in place. Your average elementary school teacher during the peak of the American Dream had a high school diploma and maybe a 2 year degree from a community college. Now, with credentialism creep, you need masters and multiple other certifications to teach, and the end product doesn't show any appreciable improvement.

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if youre capable of googling starting salaries before choosing your career path youre probably too smart to be a teacher

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If you don't realize that teaching is for chumps by 5th grade you're ngmi

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The "has a masters degree" stuff is also disingenuous. Teachers pay for degree mill online degrees that would be nigh worthless if not for education payscales.

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