> heard IT pays a lot with not much work

I want to live in this fantasy world!

(Our IT dept is so overworked that I go out of my way to work around them purely out of empathy.)

Every industry has its bad employers and good.

I know teachers that make $50k and no pension, with others making $93k, halfways to their pension at 35yrs old, get almost 12 weeks off total a year, and work from 8am to 3pm (1 hour lunch, 1 hour for 'prep' aka Netflix) and home by 335, and no, they basically never do any work at home. She technically has students (10 year olds she sends links to for their chrome books) about 5x53 minutes a day.

▲

fair_enough 6 days ago | parent [-]

That sounds like a good semi-retirement gig just to get out of the house for a little while. If you're teaching the tech-related electives rather than mandatory core courses, the students are likely a lot more pleasant to deal with. I took German just to get away from the all the kids taking Spanish or French who were just there because they have to get their foreign language credit.

▲

throwawaylaptop 5 days ago | parent [-]

Yes, just what we need, retired people with a whole career of making income behind themselves taking another decent entry level job someone one just out of college can get. (No teaching credential needed for substitute teachers usually)

▲

fair_enough 5 days ago | parent [-]

If a semi-retired engineer with 2-4 decades of work experience makes a better public high school STEM teacher, then I hope a lot more engineers do it as a semi-retirement gig.

The aspiring career schoolteachers will just have to find a job in a field that is short-staffed, like registered nurses or one of the trades. I'm sure that comes across as "let them eat cake" to some Bernie moron, but going back to school for 6 months is small potatoes, and doing a little market research before making big financial decisions like choosing your college major in the first place is basic adult responsibility.

If we apply the "lump of labor" fallacy everywhere else honestly and consistently, we would have to be opposed to immigration and trade because "those damn foreigners" went and "took er jerbs".

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRtkJaZ...

▲

throwawaylaptop 4 days ago | parent [-]

I am 100% opposed to immigration too.

▲

fair_enough a day ago | parent [-]

You're opposed to immigration until you personally can have greater freedom or a higher standard of living somewhere else.

	▲	throwawaylaptop 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		No doubt I could enjoy a better life somewhere in the world. But I dont expect that country to let me move there and give me their opportunities.