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Originally Posted by John Doe
That was pretty evasive. You never did answer what you do, just vaguely what you did when you first entered the workforce. What do you do now? Not only the industry, but what kind of duties do you perform during your workday. What hours do you work? What is the pay? I would like to know so that I can avoid such a job, as it is so much harder to do and so poorly compensated for.
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I own a small business. Like every other small business owner I know, there is never
really a vacation in the way a teacher would think of a vacation. I probably take about four weeks off per year. Never more than one week consecutively and every single time I'm "on vacation" I'm handling phone calls, emails and coming into the office. That probably sounds like whining, but it's just the facts. Every small business owner will tell you the same with few exceptions.
Is the compensation better? I can have good months/years and bad months/years. It fluctuates. I'd say per hour - even factoring in my best years - I make far less than a teacher. And I don't get a guaranteed pension, any benefits, any paid sick days (where somebody comes in to do my job for me while I'm away), etc. I think on a per-hour basis, a very small percentage of people in our province make what a teacher makes.
I was just talking with my kids over breakfast about what they want to be. They both want to be teachers and we're very encouraging of this. It's a great profession with an ideal mix of compensation, benefits, low hours, job security and a pension. Personally, I've never come across a better vocation that's attainable to pretty much anybody. I mean, there are outliers that make more and work less, but they're not positions that everybody can have.