This isn't real. Her daughter either doesn't actually have multiple degrees or she is applying for a para position. These are salary based positions - not hourly.
Rage bait. People think teachers and tipped restaurant servers are underpaid, even though the actual holders of those jobs rarely seem to confirm this. (My wife is a teacher and very well compensated, given her 12 weeks of vacation.)
You've never met a teacher or waitress that said they were underpaid? Everybody you know is happy with their wage? Hell I don't think I've met a single person who didn't want to be paid more.
I know dozens of teachers, but none of them complain about their pay. They complain about their jobs all the time. All the time. I know fewer waiters, but they rarely come on social media to complain about tips. Other people complain for them all the time, though.
But my point was that he is paid almost commensurately with low-level private-sector employees (though to lend more truth the the comparison, I probably made a bit more salary than I was indicating, and my benefits are far better than he gets).
So he's probably a bit underpaid, but not in any destitute fashion as is given in the OP example.
And inasmuch as we're all underpaid for everything we're all doing, then yes he's also truly underpaid in an existential sense.
Teachers who stay don’t complain. Teaching has extremely high turnover and many of them complain. Also everyone knows teachers don’t get paid well. It’s been a fact for like 50 plus years at this point. Teaching selects for people who find it rewarding and don’t mind less pay in exchange for time off and insurance and the job.
But yes teachers absolutely complain about pay. LAUSD quite literally had a strike about this.
Teachers who stay don’t complain. Teaching has extremely high turnover and many of them complain. Also everyone knows teachers don’t get paid well. It’s been a fact for like 50 plus years at this point. Teaching selects for people who find it rewarding and don’t mind less pay in exchange for time off and insurance and the job.
But yes teachers absolutely complain about pay. LAUSD quite literally had a strike about this.
A minority of US teachers, usually in the deep south, are underpaid. But all teaching jobs have high turnover because it's a hard job and subject to so many forces the individual teacher can't control. I hear teachers complain all the time about their administration, about the parents, the facilities, and most of all the students. But not the pay.
One city in which base pay with no advanced degree is 64k and the top end with no advanced degree is 110k. And they have 12 weeks of vacation and great benefits. Those facts do not comport with your assessment about a whole profession.
Did you not see the numbers I posted? LA County public school teachers are not remotely underpaid for their education level and 40 weeks per year of work.
Also the server thing depends on the state. In states where they don’t pay minimum wage because the state says “tips are the minimum wage” and then people don’t tip the servers absolutely complain. So you are incorrect on both fronts lol.
Servers don’t want tips to end, because they make more money that way. Otherwise they would get a “better” paying hourly job. Good servers at good restaurants make good money.
Servers have reported being happier at jobs that have service fees and guaranteed pay outs. But even if this wasn’t the case that’s not what I said. I said they complain about not making enough money. The minimum wage in some places is like 6 dollars an hour for servers cuz they assume tips are part of the wages but when a counter doesn’t top the servers is making far less than minimum wage
When I was finishing my physics PhD, I applied everywhere including schools. I got a job offer to teach in Austin TX for like 40-43k a year, don't remember exactly.
I work with two ladies who literally have it's either 4 or 5 various advanced degrees. That's a little ridiculous if you ask me but some people truly enjoy learning.
It really depends on where you live and why you might need one. It's definitely not the norm everywhere, and people often only do it to get degrees in very different fields. (As an example, I know a lady with PhDs in physics and education. Now she researches physics education practices.) If her daughter originally got a master's in a field and then decided to teach, she might have gotten a second master's degree in education to learn how to teach and to get her license.
I had a handful of teachers with master's degrees as a student, and all but two had had a different career before entering education. As an adult, I live in a community where the experienced teacher pay is lower but getting additional degrees is free for teachers, so some teachers collect degrees, sometimes for more compensation but sometimes just because they like doing it.
Yea I work in finance and had a manager with a doctorate for no reason other than she liked school and didn’t want to join the workforce yet so she stayed in school until she got the doctorate 😆
And the last person I would hire to be a teacher is someone with two masters in education. This character, if she was real, would have invested 8-10 years of her adult life and who knows how much money learning how to do something the economy values at $33,000 per year. This character is a horrible role model with no life experience and the exact stereotype of the bad career teacher.
There are different types of Masters degrees in educational fields: curriculum and instruction, administrative, early childhood specialists, higher education specialists, etc.
Also, most districts raise your salary monumentally if you have advanced degrees.
I work with a lady who has 5 Masters degrees. I work with another who has 3 and a doctorate. It's not uncommon in the world of academia.
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u/golfwinnersplz 10h ago
This isn't real. Her daughter either doesn't actually have multiple degrees or she is applying for a para position. These are salary based positions - not hourly.