RUPD3658
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Teachers in NJ make good money. With her masters and 10 years experience my wife makes nearly the same base pay as I do as a Sgt with 18 years experience. Not bad for only working 10 months a year. She also can easily make $50-60 per hous tutoring.
Of course thanks to my overtime (400hrs+ per year) I still wear the pants in our house. She just tells me which ones to wear. 
Don't start with the 10 months a year. The average person works 5 days a week for 50 weeks a year. That totals 250 days. Take out Christmas, 4th of July, Labor Day, and New years and you are down to 246 days per year. A teacher is scheduled to work anywhere from 180 - 200 days per year. (186 in my district). That doesn't include the 5 or 6 days I spend before school starts in my classroom getting it ready. The other 3 days that I spend after school is out getting my room ready for summer. It also doesn't include every Sunday during the 36 weeks of the school year that I spend grading papers. That puts me at 230 days. 16 days difference. (I know some work more but I am saying average)
Then there are the times when I have to wait an hour and a half to go to the bathroom because by law, I cannot leave my classroom unattended by a teacher. Don't point out the 7 hour day either because I do not know a single teacher that gets their work done in the seven hours students are in school. Most of us are there anywhere from 1 to 2 hours additional each day getting the lessons ready for the next day.
Then there is the pay. Show me another job that requires a Master's Degree within the first three years and then only pays $40,000 per year (required in Ohio by No Child Left Behind) The average person with a Master's degree in the business world makes about $60,000. (see http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Degree=Master's_Degree/Salary for citation). Is the 16 days difference worth $20,000?
Don't get me wrong. I love teaching and wouldn't trade it for the world. I am also one of the few that have worked in the business world and knows what that is like as well. The rewards of seeing a student understand something new for the first time is more than worth the $20,000 difference in pay to me. I can also tell you that teachers complain about how people are in the business world and they don't know what that is like either. It is one of those, the grass is always greener on the other side things where both sides see the positives in the other without seeing all the other stuff.
My wife has a bathroom in her class room. I know about the extra hours since her after school work frequently takes up valauble computer time that prevents me from playing WiTP. Not to mention that I have to help so I feel like I have gone through the 2nd grade 8 9 times now. I think we were still finger painting in 2nd grade, now they are working with computers and doing math that I didn't get until middle school.
Masters in required and only gets you up to 40K?  That sucks. My wife is 74 and will be at 82K next year. Without the Masters, which is not a requirement) she would be about 8K less.
Then again we pay close to 10K in property taxes (NJ is #! in the US for taxes and car insurance) so I guess we have a higher cost of living than OH.
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......Thanks for the reminder T......though I do have a stinking cold...and am working 16 hr days/7day weeks untill Dec. 24th........with the Occ. game of witp........(get the violins out).....I hereby apologise for my moan.........Glory to the Thread.......now off to my AAR to have a moan.......
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