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Originally Posted by CBorders
I think this is a bad take. I'm dating a teacher
she would have known all these things long before getting into it, random and unknown hours are known - yes it's been exacerbated via pandemic but then again you could argue a lot on professions are adversely impacted regarding quality of life and this is nothing unique to teaching
you also gotta be aware, as a boyfriend, you are her default sounding board where she gets to dump all her work related stress upon so you're going to hear all the complaints and only some of the rest
but point is nearly all of that she would have known about before deciding to get into it - nobody tricked her, nobody led her to believe once the bell rung her time was up and she could hit the beach
that's my point, most people don't like their jobs, wish they had more money, had a better benefits package, had a more attractive partner, bigger house etc - i think a lot of these complaints are standard complaints you'd hear if she worked any profession but it gets filtered via the cookie cutter "teachers got it so hard" trope
yes, teachers are underpaid when compared to what they could earn leveraging the same educational input into another career output - i'm not arguing that - but they knew this ahead of time and chose that path anyway
what about all those poor college grads serving up lattes? what about all the poor poker players who went busto? remove the virtue signaling of supporting education and this notion becomes another blase "x people don't get enough y" which can easily be argued for most of society
thread still pointless