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Where did all the down time go?
« on: April 05, 2018, 11:23:25 pm »
After moving back to the US all me time has been completely dominated by work, wife, & kids. I find myself wondering where do you guys find any time for hobbies.

 

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Re: Where did all the down time go?
« Reply #1 on: April 06, 2018, 01:18:37 am »
Honestly I don't.  Projects that should take me around a week take me months these days.  Ask Boomslang... he's been waiting for me to release a new version of TS2 all winter. 

My insomnia helps some.... when you can't sleep and it's too late to do anything normal it is a good time to putz around with projects.  I feel your pain though.  People always say stupid things like "you've got to make time" but life rarely works that way. 

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Re: Where did all the down time go?
« Reply #2 on: April 06, 2018, 04:09:21 am »
Having no children helps. But time is hard to come by especially if you have a ton of other hobbies.

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Re: Where did all the down time go?
« Reply #3 on: April 06, 2018, 04:53:25 am »
Time aint so hard, Lock yourself in the dungeon and don't come out till your done, .... financing the insanity can be quite a challenge however.

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Re: Where did all the down time go?
« Reply #4 on: April 06, 2018, 09:15:59 am »
Time aint so hard, Lock yourself in the dungeon and don't come out till your done, .... financing the insanity can be quite a challenge however.
But whos got the time to lock themselves in a dungeon?

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Re: Where did all the down time go?
« Reply #5 on: April 06, 2018, 10:15:44 am »
First, you plan way ahead and have kids in your early 20's so you are a "free man" by 45.  Then get divorced at 40, wait another 5 years, and you have all the time in the world.  It also helps to build a house 2 minutes from your work so you have virtually no commute, then get a job that allows you to be fairly flexible with your time, so if you want to spend a Friday working on a project at home instead of sitting in the office, you can do that with little planning.

At least that worked for me. YMMV

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Re: Where did all the down time go?
« Reply #6 on: April 06, 2018, 10:24:18 am »
Life is funny, when you are young you lack the money or time to do what you really want to do.  When you finally retire, you are too old to care about most of it any more, even if you now have the time and money to do it.

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Re: Where did all the down time go?
« Reply #7 on: April 06, 2018, 10:28:31 am »
Yea money is tight these days. But for me, time is the killer. My wife is taking most of this yer off to spend with the kids. You would this would make money the bigger issue, but buy the time I get home from work My wife is near the end of her rope. It’s hard to be home with two little children. We both try hard to give the other time but it’s always fleeting. Life was easyer over seas with two incomes, a Nanny, and hous keeper.

Hopefully when my son goes to camp in June, then PreK in fall we’ll all get a little more time.
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Re: Where did all the down time go?
« Reply #8 on: April 06, 2018, 11:33:42 am »
I got a lot of my free time back when I started selling arcade games instead of buying and fixing them.
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Re: Where did all the down time go?
« Reply #9 on: April 06, 2018, 02:03:21 pm »
First, you plan way ahead and have kids in your early 20's so you are a "free man" by 45.  Then get divorced at 40, wait another 5 years, and you have all the time in the world.  It also helps to build a house 2 minutes from your work so you have virtually no commute, then get a job that allows you to be fairly flexible with your time, so if you want to spend a Friday working on a project at home instead of sitting in the office, you can do that with little planning.

At least that worked for me. YMMV

Divorced is awesome.
too bad kids are younger but at an age where the youngest can now work the microwave without burning the house down so I expect to get more things done.

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Re: Where did all the down time go?
« Reply #10 on: April 06, 2018, 03:05:26 pm »
Time aint so hard, Lock yourself in the dungeon and don't come out till your done, .... financing the insanity can be quite a challenge however.
But whos got the time to lock themselves in a dungeon?
  Jenn loves building games, and with the passion comes concessions, Work binges, sometimes almost 2 days long, and working to sheer exhaustion have worked for me, but not without consequence,....Spent a kings ransom, Lost jobs, forget to eat, virtually disowned by family, and you guys are basically my only friends during these nights in the dungeon.
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Re: Where did all the down time go?
« Reply #11 on: April 06, 2018, 03:09:08 pm »
Your family is taking up your free time? Sounds like your spending your free time exactly how you should. :cheers:
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Re: Where did all the down time go?
« Reply #12 on: April 06, 2018, 03:19:56 pm »
Your family is taking up your free time? Sounds like your spending your free time exactly how you should. :cheers:
  So one might think, But some need to follow their dreams, Be it paint their dollhouse, or build monster trucks,

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Re: Where did all the down time go?
« Reply #13 on: April 06, 2018, 03:37:47 pm »
Your family is taking up your free time? Sounds like your spending your free time exactly how you should. :cheers:
Wise words, my friend. If your family is a burden, you need to rethink your priorities. :-)
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Re: Where did all the down time go?
« Reply #14 on: April 06, 2018, 03:41:28 pm »
Getting back to the original question, I simply carve out chunks of time where my family knows I’m going to be working on hobby stuff. There’s a special understanding now around ZapCon that I’m going to be busy, but at the same time, I’m not going to cut into family time just because I want to paint something. I want them to like this hobby, not see it as something taking me away from them.
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Re: Where did all the down time go?
« Reply #15 on: April 06, 2018, 04:22:56 pm »
Your family is taking up your free time? Sounds like your spending your free time exactly how you should. :cheers:
Wise words, my friend. If your family is a burden, you need to rethink your priorities. :-)

Seriously. This hobby has killed many marriages. Mine included.
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Re: Where did all the down time go?
« Reply #16 on: April 06, 2018, 04:31:09 pm »
Meh, not everyone has or gets along with their families.


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Re: Where did all the down time go?
« Reply #17 on: April 06, 2018, 05:15:24 pm »
     **Jenn slides a refreshing Fresca to crazy uncle Jim.... Well anyway, to you with family, You may want to consider the nature of what your doing. Old monitors and boards are a plethora of heavy metal poisons. And The chemicals associated with the hobby,  Killing off your loved ones is not the answer....Heres a fun example if you guys can "find the time" (Giggle :duckhunt)
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Re: Where did all the down time go?
« Reply #18 on: April 06, 2018, 10:12:05 pm »
Your family is taking up your free time? Sounds like your spending your free time exactly how you should. :cheers:

Yea my last post came out wrong, not trying to cut my family time. My kids are the best and I love spending time with them. 10 years later and my wife is still my best friend. Although I don't think it's selfish to want a little alone time, just a hr or two a week.   

At the moment work is eating up a lot of my time. At the new job, where I'm a PE teacher in one of poorest and low preforming Elementary schools in NYC. My actual job is going well, but I'v been waging a gorilla war to drag my school into the 21st century. When I arrived there was only one class room with computers for student use and they were 10 plus year old laptops running XP. They weren't aloud on the school network and were running old CD rom games. I moved them over to Lubuntu and started the first in a series of Donors choose project for  R-pi's, 1080p monitor's, mice/keyboards, etc.

I've now gotten 6 technology centers funded different classrooms, that's about $5,500 and 30 computers. A 7th is up now, no link because I'm not hitting you guys up for cash. This has me doing lots of pear training, support, and planning around the new computers, keep in mind I'm the PE teacher.

I used to make time after the kids go to sleep but now thats when I do things like planning for my own classes. I could just do my job and go home but I feel like this is really helping.             
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Re: Where did all the down time go?
« Reply #19 on: April 06, 2018, 10:16:44 pm »
A 7th is up now, no link because I'm not hitting you guys up for cash

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Re: Where did all the down time go?
« Reply #20 on: April 06, 2018, 10:23:39 pm »
A 7th is up now, no link because I'm not hitting you guys up for cash

---fudgesicle--- you, I'll give you my money if I want to. Post the link.

Here you go. I feel a little odd posting it as I have barely ben posting in the past month or so.

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Re: Where did all the down time go?
« Reply #21 on: April 06, 2018, 10:39:10 pm »
looking for any hardware besides whats listed?  Money sent
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Re: Where did all the down time go?
« Reply #22 on: April 06, 2018, 10:46:34 pm »
looking for any hardware besides whats listed?  Money sent

Thank Man,

I'm debating on moving every thing over to Pi-Net, so keeping my eyes out for network switches (with at least a single gigabit or 10/100/1000mbit port for the server). But not 100% sure I'm going to go that way yet.

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Re: Where did all the down time go?
« Reply #23 on: April 06, 2018, 10:47:57 pm »
you a Cisco guy or you want dummy switches?
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Re: Where did all the down time go?
« Reply #24 on: April 06, 2018, 10:54:35 pm »
I assume by “dummy” you mean unmanaged switches, yes. My understanding is that administration of Cisco gear is its own whole crazy specialty and the additional flexibility isn’t needed for this use.

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A 7th is up now, no link because I'm not hitting you guys up for cash

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« Reply #26 on: April 06, 2018, 11:54:07 pm »
Not you, and never to an AOL account  :afro:
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« Reply #27 on: April 06, 2018, 11:55:34 pm »
Yes, dummy = unmanaged

I think all I have is cisco gear, how many ports were you looking to have?
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Re: Where did all the down time go?
« Reply #28 on: April 07, 2018, 01:53:01 am »
I think hopefully the little revolution our local teachers started is going to eventually lead to some national education reform.  It's rare I get to be proud of something political my state does these days so I'm counting this one.  ;)

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Re: Where did all the down time go?
« Reply #29 on: April 07, 2018, 08:37:44 am »
Yes, dummy = unmanaged

I think all I have is cisco gear, how many ports were you looking to have?

Thanks man, 5 ports per switch. Each class room is getting 4 student work stations.

I think hopefully the little revolution our local teachers started is going to eventually lead to some national education reform.  It's rare I get to be proud of something political my state does these days so I'm counting this one.  ;)

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« Reply #30 on: April 07, 2018, 09:06:08 am »
I don't have any gear with that few ports. No way to do home runs back to a central 24 port switch?
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« Reply #31 on: April 07, 2018, 09:13:21 am »
Not in a practical way, we are in a large building. Thanks for the offer. 

Small switches are cheep enough that I can buy one for testing then do a donors choose project to get a school set.

 

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Re: Where did all the down time go?
« Reply #36 on: April 07, 2018, 12:35:46 pm »
Back in the day, money was tight and time was plentiful. While money isn't plentiful, it's no longer my #1 concern. Time on the other hand, it's a scarce resource. My projects have slowed as the family grew. I was smart about it and cut my projects back so I didn't have stacks of unfinished projects laying around. I built a few cabs in 2015 and 2016. I built a full size R2, and some fun Raspberry Pi projects, but most of my projects now are around the house. Like yots, my family knows when certain projects are coming up and I need to carve out time for them, I just make sure my other time is spent doing family related projects. It's a balancing act for sure.

As for the arcade games, I'm at a point where the arcade setup I have now plays just about everything I need. I turn them on rarely, but they are nice to have. When I'm gaming, it's usually on the Wii or Wii-U with the kids. Currently playing Mario Kart. Lots of fun.

As for teachers.... I'd like to see them get good pay, and I'd like to see classes be better equipped, but in no way should that be done through a tax increase. Taxes are outrageous where I live. I'm totally fine with the classrooms having their fundraisers to improve the classrooms. Taxing the whole community so the classrooms can have flexible seating or other niceties, I'm over it.

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Re: Where did all the down time go?
« Reply #37 on: April 07, 2018, 06:18:23 pm »
I’ve lived where you live and in no way is your tax system the same as other areas.

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Re: Where did all the down time go?
« Reply #38 on: April 07, 2018, 07:42:54 pm »
  I cant stop thinking about Kotter, and the sweat hogs. :-\

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Re: Where did all the down time go?
« Reply #39 on: April 07, 2018, 10:42:53 pm »
I spent 21 years as an educator in public schools. The only way I found I could make more money was to move to a private school this year.
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Re: Where did all the down time go?
« Reply #40 on: April 07, 2018, 11:48:47 pm »
In my anecdotal experience, the private schools pay worse but you get all that “prestige” that won’t pay the rent.

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Re: Where did all the down time go?
« Reply #41 on: April 07, 2018, 11:51:52 pm »
Your anecdotal experience is way different than mine. I got a healthy bump when I made the move, plus they pay for my cel phone.
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Re: Where did all the down time go?
« Reply #42 on: April 08, 2018, 12:28:37 am »
That’s cool, man.  I think they treat public school teachers slightly better here.  Ever so slightly.

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Re: Where did all the down time go?
« Reply #43 on: April 08, 2018, 01:01:54 am »
It todaly depends on your state. In NYC poblick schools almost always pay better. We max out at $113,762 and that’s not counting summer school or $50 an Hr pricession. It takes a long time to get to the top here. In the suburbs it’s higher and you get to the top quicker.
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Re: Where did all the down time go?
« Reply #44 on: April 08, 2018, 01:18:25 am »
$113k? Holy ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---!
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Re: Where did all the down time go?
« Reply #45 on: April 08, 2018, 01:28:53 am »
   Makes me wonder what the point of this thread actually is?.... Money aside, one would have to think of union benefits and summers off (whats that like 180 days?) Seems if you really did want to build a few games one could find some time.

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Re: Where did all the down time go?
« Reply #46 on: April 08, 2018, 09:34:32 am »
It takes 20 years to get to the top and you need to have 30 credits over your masters. I’m no ware near that. NYC is exspensive, with my wife taking off to spend with the kids I’m going to need to work this summer school and that’s a lot of work.

You have a point. I may have no time now but there will be time at some point.

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Re: Where did all the down time go?
« Reply #47 on: April 08, 2018, 02:00:02 pm »
I’ve lived where you live and in no way is your tax system the same as other areas.

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I live in Illinois. You lived in Mo, right? Different worlds.

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Re: Where did all the down time go?
« Reply #48 on: April 08, 2018, 02:27:20 pm »
Yes, but I worked in St. Louis and paid city, county, and state income tax.  If Illinois is worse, I’m sorry to hear it. There was no obvious destination for those tax dollars in Missouri.


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Re: Where did all the down time go?
« Reply #49 on: April 09, 2018, 08:21:14 am »
Makes me wonder what the point of this thread actually is?

He was asking how we carve out time for projects, I made it about money, kinda. Was hoping to get other peeps to help chip into his cause. I'm still going to see what gear I can possibly send him, we're redoing our data center so I'm hoping I have some stuff he can make use of. I *know* we don't have any 5 port switches though.
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Re: Where did all the down time go?
« Reply #50 on: April 09, 2018, 04:10:12 pm »
All I have is consumer grade stuff.  Got plenty of old routers taking up space though.  ;)

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Re: Where did all the down time go?
« Reply #51 on: April 09, 2018, 05:43:15 pm »
Malenko hit it on the head. I found my self wishing for time and missed hanging ont here. Stared this thread with that in mind. My build may still be on hold but I’m back on the boards.

Malenko I would be happy to use a 24 port or two, if you don’t have a better use for it. Thanks Howard but don’t have a use for any routers.

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Re: Where did all the down time go?
« Reply #52 on: April 09, 2018, 06:43:30 pm »
Donated.  We need more good teachers like you in our classrooms.  Thanks for posting the link, and thanks to Malenko for getting it started.

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Re: Where did all the down time go?
« Reply #53 on: April 09, 2018, 07:14:45 pm »
Donated.  We need more good teachers like you in our classrooms.  Thanks for posting the link, and thanks to Malenko for getting it started.

Thank you Arroyo. My students and I are great full.

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Re: Where did all the down time go?
« Reply #54 on: April 09, 2018, 07:20:31 pm »
Donated.  We need more good teachers like you in our classrooms.  Thanks for posting the link, and thanks to Malenko for getting it started.

Thank you Arroyo. My students and I are great full.

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Re: Where did all the down time go?
« Reply #55 on: April 09, 2018, 07:22:19 pm »
The irony is, when I do have time - it feels very expensive to spend it going for a new high score.Not expensive money-wise, but expensive in that I should be doing something else with my time. It makes it hard to enjoy the simple things in life. Right now, I'm happy having the machines around.

My girls are 5 and 7 and we've started playing more games together. Currently playing Mario Kart 8, so that makes it a combo of family time and video games.

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Re: Where did all the down time go?
« Reply #56 on: April 10, 2018, 12:37:46 am »
And that's why I love Nintendo.  You can buy the games for yourself because the gameplay is sophisticated enough and yet they are easy enough for non-gamers to enjoy and the content is always family friendly. 

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Re: Where did all the down time go?
« Reply #57 on: April 10, 2018, 10:32:40 am »
Sent a little your way Locke141, thanks for doing stuff like this!

I might have a couple old small switches lying around, and I think we still have a stack of old 16-24 port switches in the closet if you would like them.  Drop me a PM if you are interested.

On the family note, if I could offer any advice, it would be to never put the hobby before the kids, and figure out how to put the hobby before the wife once in a while. 

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Re: Where did all the down time go?
« Reply #58 on: April 10, 2018, 02:36:28 pm »
And that's why I love Nintendo.  You can buy the games for yourself because the gameplay is sophisticated enough and yet they are easy enough for non-gamers to enjoy and the content is always family friendly.

I beat my kids maybe 1 out of 10 times in mario kart on the wi-u.
I victory dance for no less than 5 mins. :)

something about nintendo. I have an rpi based mini NES and SNES setup on the hdmi switch and both kids will play mario brother's and yoshi's isalnd I think on it plus the kirby games. my 11yr old coaches me on Zelda on the NES.
He saw a walkthrough on youtube once.
which his memory would be that good when it comes to school. lol.

My kids are chomping at the bit for me to finish the mame cab I started.
They want to play mario bros. and donkey kong because they are the originals.

With summer slowly coming I can get the broken down cab pieces outside and get them painted and they can can help.

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Re: Where did all the down time go?
« Reply #59 on: April 10, 2018, 09:17:06 pm »
And that's why I love Nintendo.  You can buy the games for yourself because the gameplay is sophisticated enough and yet they are easy enough for non-gamers to enjoy and the content is always family friendly.

I beat my kids maybe 1 out of 10 times in mario kart on the wi-u.
I victory dance for no less than 5 mins. :)

something about nintendo. I have an rpi based mini NES and SNES setup on the hdmi switch and both kids will play mario brother's and yoshi's isalnd I think on it plus the kirby games. my 11yr old coaches me on Zelda on the NES.
He saw a walkthrough on youtube once.
which his memory would be that good when it comes to school. lol.

My kids are chomping at the bit for me to finish the mame cab I started.
They want to play mario bros. and donkey kong because they are the originals.

With summer slowly coming I can get the broken down cab pieces outside and get them painted and they can can help.

Looking forward to getting my kids involved in nerd stuff.

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Re: Where did all the down time go?
« Reply #60 on: April 11, 2018, 07:12:11 pm »
I spent 21 years as an educator in public schools. The only way I found I could make more money was to move to a private school this year.

That’s unfortunate, it would be unusual to make more in a private school here. Good luck to our brother and sister in the Arizona public schools in there fight for fair pay.

By the way, my 7th lad just got funded! Thanks to the guys from here who donate. I’m going to try posting multiple projects for labs at the same time.
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Re: Where did all the down time go?
« Reply #61 on: April 11, 2018, 09:57:38 pm »
Fair pay? So, what is fair pay for a teacher anyhow?

From a consumer point of view, I had 100's of teachers over the years and only a handful of good ones, the vast majority were going through the motions, and a decent amount of bad teachers. I would love for the good teachers to get more money, but it's a government job with great hours, a good retirement plan, and there is no way to pay the good teachers a good salary without paying all the lazy bones too. To me, that sounds like a union job.

I would support tips for teachers. Pretty sure teachers feel like they are above tips, but I'm just not sure how we could directly increase good teachers salaries without feeding a pile of money into the machine with hopes of some of it going to the teachers.

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Re: Where did all the down time go?
« Reply #62 on: April 11, 2018, 10:16:11 pm »
Fair pay? So, what is fair pay for a teacher anyhow?

From a consumer point of view, I had 100's of teachers over the years and only a handful of good ones, the vast majority were going through the motions, and a decent amount of bad teachers. I would love for the good teachers to get more money, but it's a government job with great hours, a good retirement plan, and there is no way to pay the good teachers a good salary without paying all the lazy bones too. To me, that sounds like a union job.

I would support tips for teachers. Pretty sure teachers feel like they are above tips, but I'm just not sure how we could directly increase good teachers salaries without feeding a pile of money into the machine with hopes of some of it going to the teachers.
Not sure if you are aware (most people outside of the financial services are not), but pension contributions and subsequent pay for teachers is in lieu of social security contributions.  Teachers therefore (in almost all cases) will not gain access to social security.  As teachers typically make substantially less then their private counterparts (particularly at the collegiate level) there isn’t a lot of benefits from a financial perspective to be a teacher.  Therefore one has to believe they are in it (or at least initially) for the genuine interest in educating the future working class, which will be the folks who will be paying into social security, medi-care, taxes, etc via income and property taxes so that when we reach an age of relying on those services they are funded.

I agree that tenure can be a touchy subject which may allow some teachers to slump into mediocrity, but on the whole I’m all for incentivizing smart capable people into teaching.

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Re: Where did all the down time go?
« Reply #63 on: April 11, 2018, 11:32:54 pm »
Heh... someone complains that their teachers are mediocre and therefore don't deserve a raise when, in reality they are mediocre BECAUSE they don't get a raise.  The only way to get a better quality worker in any field is to offer better pay.... then more qualified professionals will be willing to apply for the job.  That being said teachers should absolutely be held accountable for the education level of their students.

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Re: Where did all the down time go?
« Reply #64 on: April 12, 2018, 12:00:34 am »
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Re: Where did all the down time go?
« Reply #65 on: April 12, 2018, 01:22:33 am »
Heh... someone complains that their teachers are mediocre and therefore don't deserve a raise when, in reality they are mediocre BECAUSE they don't get a raise.  The only way to get a better quality worker in any field is to offer better pay.... then more qualified professionals will be willing to apply for the job.  That being said teachers should absolutely be held accountable for the education level of their students.

Maybe for some.

When house prices and house sales were booming, it's not like Realtors became more qualified. In Information Technology, the higher wages doesn't guarantee you'll get a more qualified professional. Just more crap to wade through when your'e hiring. Good wages help, but I'd argue that the good teachers now, would be the same good teachers if their wages doubled. The crappy ones are still going to be crappy.

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Re: Where did all the down time go?
« Reply #66 on: April 12, 2018, 02:06:12 am »
Would that hold true for your profession?  If your industry were to be devalued and your pay significantly reduced would you continue to do the work?  I think that question becomes particularly difficult to answer when it starts to impact ones ability to afford some of the more desirable things like home ownership.  Obviously it’s regionally dependent but I can say that where I live teachers are mostly commuters with a typical hour drive to and from work as they cannot afford housing in the area they teach.

For the record I am definitely a capitalist, I just think we have to be careful where we place our values so that we don’t fall behind the rest of the world.

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Re: Where did all the down time go?
« Reply #67 on: April 12, 2018, 05:35:29 am »
Would that hold true for your profession?  If your industry were to be devalued and your pay significantly reduced would you continue to do the work?  I think that question becomes particularly difficult to answer when it starts to impact ones ability to afford some of the more desirable things like home ownership.  Obviously it’s regionally dependent but I can say that where I live teachers are mostly commuters with a typical hour drive to and from work as they cannot afford housing in the area they teach.

For the record I am definitely a capitalist, I just think we have to be careful where we place our values so that we don’t fall behind the rest of the world.
All industries are not a given, Tech changes by the day and as such some jobs are phased out all together, adapt or die....while it would be fun to think a teacher could save humanity, truth is they would most likely struggle in private sector in their respective fields, even if they could find a job.

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Re: Where did all the down time go?
« Reply #68 on: April 12, 2018, 06:52:22 am »
Tenyour doesn’t work how most people think. I have it and get observed 6 times a year. If my rating would falls below satisfactory I would be put on a preference inhansment plan (PIP). If I then were to fall to meet the goals in the in the PIP in the time designated line, I would be let go. Schools with tenyour on avrege dismiss teacher how are struggling more often.

Here is a fun fact in NYC, on avrege the unionized public out preform the charter school.

Also,Most of the teachers I know under 40 in NYC have to get summer jobs just to get by.



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Re: Where did all the down time go?
« Reply #69 on: April 12, 2018, 09:55:24 am »
The only way I see teachers "make it" around here is they're married to someone who's subsidizing the income.  I don't think it's really possible to support a family with the salary, which is a pretty sad state of affairs.  Bringing the income up to a livable wage ought to attract better talent and not waste too much on the duds.  $50k plus a 3% increase every other year?  Would make the option tenable for a lot more people.

My wife teaches at the college level and spends a hell of a lot of nights grading until 2-3am for indifferent students.  Then they want letters of recommendation for medical school.  It's simultaneously hilarious and sad.  You'd have to put a gun to my head to make me teach.


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« Reply #70 on: April 12, 2018, 10:03:47 am »

My wife teaches at the college level and spends a hell of a lot of nights grading until 2-3am for indifferent students.  Then they want letters of recommendation for medical school.  It's simultaneously hilarious and sad.  You'd have to put a gun to my head to make me teach.

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My wife teaches and I have the same feelings.  She makes an okay wage until you start looking at it hourly. There are many nights were she is up after I go to bed working on lesson plans or filling out mandated paperwork or IEP's.   We stressed very strongly to our kids to not go into teaching. 

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« Reply #71 on: April 12, 2018, 01:15:48 pm »
Well teachers make a decent income here compared to the average salary, but that's only because most people in our state are dirt poor.  Nobody wants to spend money on education or anything that might improve the situation in the long run, mainly because a decent portion of the adults are poorly educated and don't know any better.  Particularly in the southern portion of the state where all the men want to drop out of school and work in the mines while all the women stay at home and make babies that they can't afford.  The mines pay a good comparative salary and that's all they can see.  They can't see that most people that work in the mines are dead or severely impaired by the time they reach retirement age.  The can't see that the industry is going away and no amount of fudging epa regulations or lifting of cap and trade taxes are going to change that.  That doesn't even get into the environmental damage being done.   

The cause of all of this.... lack of education.  I'm fairly stupid and even I have been educated to the point of where I can see the cause clearly.  So yeah despite any issues I may have with the modern education system I'm all for funding in regards to teachers salary and better facilities.  The only way to save the world is to make it's population smart enough to realize how easy it would be to save if we just all got on the same page.  Complain about how the teachers aren't good enough or the students aren't grateful or whatever, but the only alternative is to NOT invest in education and that would make absolutely no sense as the goal is to make future generations better than our own and I'm pretty sure doing less instead of more isn't going to do that.

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Re: Where did all the down time go?
« Reply #72 on: April 12, 2018, 03:23:24 pm »
The only way I see teachers "make it" around here is they're married to someone who's subsidizing the income.  I don't think it's really possible to support a family with the salary, which is a pretty sad state of affairs.  Bringing the income up to a livable wage ought to attract better talent and not waste too much on the duds.  $50k plus a 3% increase every other year?  Would make the option tenable for a lot more people.

My wife teaches at the college level and spends a hell of a lot of nights grading until 2-3am for indifferent students.  Then they want letters of recommendation for medical school.  It's simultaneously hilarious and sad.  You'd have to put a gun to my head to make me teach.


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depends on the school system really.
in the richer suburbs the teachers make bank.
My sister makes almost twice the median income for our area as a special ed teacher.

but I have teacher friends in other districts that don't make nearly as much.

However getting into the school she is in is hard because once someone gets in, they don't leave until they are old as dirt and retire.


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« Reply #73 on: April 12, 2018, 05:38:56 pm »
The only way I see teachers "make it" around here is they're married to someone who's subsidizing the income.  I don't think it's really possible to support a family with the salary, which is a pretty sad state of affairs.  Bringing the income up to a livable wage ought to attract better talent and not waste too much on the duds.  $50k plus a 3% increase every other year?  Would make the option tenable for a lot more people.

My wife teaches at the college level and spends a hell of a lot of nights grading until 2-3am for indifferent students.  Then they want letters of recommendation for medical school.  It's simultaneously hilarious and sad.  You'd have to put a gun to my head to make me teach.


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depends on the school system really.
in the richer suburbs the teachers make bank.
My sister makes almost twice the median income for our area as a special ed teacher.

but I have teacher friends in other districts that don't make nearly as much.

However getting into the school she is in is hard because once someone gets in, they don't leave until they are old as dirt and retire.

That’s spot on. In Long Island teacher can make much more then the city.

It seems that the people here who think teachers are lazy and their jobs are EZ, all live in areas with low performing schools that don’t pay very well.
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