languages (Teachers)

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Sat Mar 11 13:53:57 2000

On Sat, 11 Mar 2000, Mike Ford wrote:

> >walked into a $60k per year job with a cutting-edge tech company. He works
> >8 hours a day, maybe 2 hours extra at home to straighten out paperwork.
> >Maybe. In addition to his base salary, he receives stock options that just
> >about double his yearly salary. He is 27 and owns a house in Huntington
>
> >keep my big mouth shut. But listening to someone bash a group of people
> >who are generally dedicated to their profession, and who put up with poor
> >materials and low salaries, makes me sick.
>
> The world is NOT fair, pay rates are not fair or based much on merit.

Probably the classic illustration of that statement is the rates paid to
entertainers - and I take a fairly generic definition here - including
such as baseball, football, and basketball players in addition to the
more usual categories.

                                                 - don

> Generally my experience is that getting a high salary is not an engineering
> skill. Might be a talent you are either born with or not, I sure don't
> know. I know very good engineers that happily work for peanuts, and
> decidedly mediocre engineers who haul down money like lawyers.
>
> My last comment, in this thread anyway, on teachers is just wait til your
> kids have a few years of school, then tell us what a swell underpaid bunch
> they are.
>
>
>
Received on Sat Mar 11 2000 - 13:53:57 GMT