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mountain:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on February 12, 2008, 08:55:30 am ---
There is the other side of that coin as well:

"In 10 years, would you rather have been in class at night or spending time with your baby?"

When my kids were that small I chose time with them over going back to school.  I'm not sorry I did.  Eventually the kids will reach an age where they are indifferent to your being there at night.   They won't be changing week to week like they are for the first few years.  That's probably when I'll go back and finish up my degree.  Until then I come home at 6pm, have dinner with my family, help my kids with their homework, and put them to bed myself.  Sure, my career isn't where I want it to be, but my parenting is, and that is more important to me right now.



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I made the same decision years ago when my kids were babies. I didn't want to live with the regret of not being there for my wife and kids. Now that they are 13 and 10, I bust ---my bottom--- at work so I can afford to send them to school in 5 years. 

ChadTower:

--- Quote from: shardian on February 12, 2008, 09:14:59 am ---Any other job I got in the engineering industry would probably mean 50 hour or more work weeks.
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That is definitely true.




--- Quote ---I just can't do that any more. That is why teaching is so incredibly attractive to me. That, and I like math ALOT and would love to teach it.

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What makes you think teaching isn't a 50 hour week?

shardian:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on February 12, 2008, 09:17:40 am ---What makes you think teaching isn't a 50 hour week?

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It can be. My mother-in-law is a counselor and she puts in a ton of hours...but she doesn't have to. She is just really inefficient and combine that with the fact she hates being home she is where she wants to be. You grade papers and such at home. I have a housewife at home who is 9 hours shy of a teaching degree herself that would be working with me on developing lesson plans, grading, creating tests, etc. Teaching is something me and the wife can do together. If she goes to work eventually, we could try to be at the same school. Teaching isn't something I have thought of half-cocked. It would be far less hours I put in now, and I know for a fact I can live comfortably off of a teachers salary.

I know that being a teacher is not a cakewalk. It scares me thinking of dealing with troubled kids who don't want to learn. I've tutored many whiny brats in math, but never dealt with a kid facing serious issues. Learning how to engage those kids is a challenge I really want to try and excel at. I had a few teachers in school who were amazing at getting trouble kids to participate - I was one of them in elementary and middle school. I remember each one of them vividly and respect them to this day. I would love to be like them and have a lasting impact on some kids lives. Besides, maybe kids would find this hobby more interesting than my current coworkers do. ;D

shardian:
hehe, I could be the "video game" teacher. Lesson plans involving classic arcade games, word problems on tests that are based in a game situation, etc, etc. :laugh2:

shardian:

--- Quote from: pinballjim on February 12, 2008, 09:34:31 am ---Just wait until you've got a classroom full of 16 year olds that are only thinking about sex and couldn't care less about math.  THAT'S what did my friend in.

My job's okay... I got the MBA and basically got my old boss's job.  Pay stinks, but it's still significantly more than I made at the last job (though don't let me overstate 'significantly')

Basically, there's no job out there that's both easy to get and fun to do and pays enough to keep you happy.  Best I ever did was 50% pay to work out of my house where I basically checked e-mail, answered the phone, and worked on pinball machines.



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Yeah too bad that schools won't let you theme your lesson plans around sex.  ;D

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