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In three years as an engineer, I am making approximately what my mother, a PhD teaching English in the CBE took 35 years to make.

She just recently retired. I can't believe some of the statements being made here. I can personally attest to seeing my mother getting home at 5, making supper, and then marking until 9 when she went to bed.

Spring break, she was marking and doing report cards. Continual education, lesson planning, UNDERSTANDING your material so you can teach it to others.. Teachers get a raw deal. If I had to deal with 35 high-school aged kids for 6-8 hours a day I'd go mental.