Poll of the Day > The last 30 days of my last summer vacation.

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MrMelodramatic
07/27/18 4:23:42 AM
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Whst do grown ups do in the summer?
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Grendel
07/27/18 4:30:30 AM
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MrMelodramatic posted...
Whst do grown ups do in the summer?


work
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Sarcasthma
07/27/18 4:31:28 AM
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Enjoy summer vacation.

(Im a teacher.)
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MrMelodramatic
07/27/18 5:50:37 AM
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Grendel posted...
MrMelodramatic posted...
Whst do grown ups do in the summer?


work

Whats my alternative?

Sarcasthma posted...
Enjoy summer vacation.

(Im a teacher.)

I think Id like to be a high school English teacher.
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rogerskg1979
07/27/18 8:02:54 AM
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MrMelodramatic posted...
Grendel posted...
MrMelodramatic posted...
Whst do grown ups do in the summer?


work

Whats my alternative?


Be a homeless bum because you don't work and don't have money.

Not only do you lose your summer vacations when you graduate school, but you also lose your Christmas vacations. Most students get like 3 weeks off for Christmas. Your employer will most likely only give you Christmas Day off (and maybe Christmas Eve if you're lucky) and that's all.
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rogerskg1979
07/27/18 8:10:44 AM
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MrMelodramatic posted...
I think Id like to be a high school English teacher.


Keep in mind a few things.

Teaching tends to be a low paid job. Yes, you get more vacation time than the average job, but you also get paid less than the average job as well. It's a trade off.

Also, not all teachers get the summers off if you teach summer school.

Teachers also tend to have homework just like their students. You know how you hate to write papers and take tests? Well, as a teacher, you're going to have to grade those papers and tests. That's your new homework is grading papers and tests and such. Most jobs don't have homework, but teaching does. Imagine you have 30 students in your class. You're going to have to grade 30 papers as your homework....
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DPsx7
07/27/18 12:43:06 PM
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It really doesn't have to change your life. Do everything you do now except trade school for work.
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jsb0714
07/27/18 1:09:29 PM
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MrMelodramatic posted...
I think Id like to be a high school English teacher.

LOL!!
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green dragon
07/27/18 1:15:10 PM
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Sarcasthma posted...
Enjoy summer vacation.

(Im a teacher.)
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green dragon
07/27/18 1:19:47 PM
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rogerskg1979 posted...
Teaching tends to be a low paid job. Yes, you get more vacation time than the average job, but you also get paid less than the average job as well. It's a trade off.

Also, not all teachers get the summers off if you teach summer school

I get paid about $60,000 per year, although I have my masters. Not high paying for a job with a master's, but not really low paying.

Plus, if I chose to work summer school, I would get paid. So like you said, it's a trade off, but if I taught summer school I'd get paid like a normal job.

rogerskg1979 posted...
Teachers also tend to have homework just like their students. You know how you hate to write papers and take tests? Well, as a teacher, you're going to have to grade those papers and tests. That's your new homework is grading papers and tests and such. Most jobs don't have homework, but teaching does. Imagine you have 30 students in your class. You're going to have to grade 30 papers as your homework

I'm a science teacher, so I don't really grade papers, but honestly it's super easy to grade the stuff I give out, plus we also grade things in class as well.
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GanglyKhan
07/27/18 1:22:41 PM
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jsb0714 posted...
MrMelodramatic posted...
I think Id like to be a high school English teacher.

LOL!!

What's your malfunction?
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TheWorstPoster
07/27/18 1:23:59 PM
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It sucks, but having no choice but to take 4 years off from school sucks even more.
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jsb0714
07/27/18 1:29:06 PM
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GanglyKhan posted...
jsb0714 posted...
MrMelodramatic posted...
I think Id like to be a high school English teacher.

LOL!!

What's your malfunction?

Experience dealing with your ilk.
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GanglyKhan
07/27/18 2:09:08 PM
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jsb0714 posted...
Experience dealing with your ilk.

Explain, man lol
Do you have something against teachers or those of the English and/or high school variety? Were you raggin on Melodramatic? Some other option?
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BADoglick
07/27/18 3:03:23 PM
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As an adult, doing things like concerts, fireworks, going on a boat ride, hiking or biking or whatever, all those summer things to do actually become easier to do because you are working and paying for them yourself instead of begging mom for money.

So the doing stuff part of summer can be better. The not doing part of summer, the being lazy af, sleeping in until almost noon, the having all the time in the world to bs feeling.... that will never come back. So enjoy it.
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SmokeMassTree
07/27/18 3:07:54 PM
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Sarcasthma posted...
Enjoy summer vacation.

(Im self employed.)

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MrMelodramatic
07/27/18 4:07:22 PM
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TheWorstPoster posted...
It sucks, but having no choice but to take 4 years off from school sucks even more.

What happened?

BADoglick posted...
As an adult, doing things like concerts, fireworks, going on a boat ride, hiking or biking or whatever, all those summer things to do actually become easier to do because you are working and paying for them yourself instead of begging mom for money.

So the doing stuff part of summer can be better. The not doing part of summer, the being lazy af, sleeping in until almost noon, the having all the time in the world to bs feeling.... that will never come back. So enjoy it.

Yeah I mostly care about the not doing stuff part. I dont ever do stuff.
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Sahuagin
07/27/18 4:11:10 PM
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do teachers really get "summer vacation"? don't they have to prepare curriculum or something? 2 months is not that much time to prepare for an entire school year.
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green dragon
07/27/18 4:21:50 PM
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Sahuagin posted...
do teachers really get "summer vacation"? don't they have to prepare curriculum or something? 2 months is not that much time to prepare for an entire school year.

It really depends. I'm teaching the same subject as i taught last year, so I don't have to make an all new curriculum. Of course I modify stuff and change stuff, but nothing major changes.

and for new teachers or teachers new to a building, they'll sometimes have a teacher their who has taught or is teaching the same stuff.
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DPsx7
07/27/18 4:36:35 PM
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Geez, you guys make it sound like he won't have any vacation days either.
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rogerskg1979
07/27/18 7:51:26 PM
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green dragon posted...
rogerskg1979 posted...
Teaching tends to be a low paid job. Yes, you get more vacation time than the average job, but you also get paid less than the average job as well. It's a trade off.

I get paid about $60,000 per year, although I have my masters. Not high paying for a job with a master's, but not really low paying.


Are you a college professor or a K-12 teacher? I would imagine that professor is probably a highly paid profession, but I have always heard that K-12 teachers are well below the median income level. It's typically one of the most common complaints of teachers is how little they are paid.
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rogerskg1979
07/27/18 7:55:26 PM
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DPsx7 posted...
Geez, you guys make it sound like he won't have any vacation days either.


Well, the average amount of annual PTO is 15 days, so that amounts to 3 weeks, which is far far far less than the months of vacation you get as a student.

Personally, I get 20 PTO days at my job. It was 10 when I first started, with gradual increases annually. The max amount of PTO I will get is 25 days at this job.
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