25 years old and deep in debt

[garbon]

I just saw on facebook that one of my Stanford peers has taken a position as a cashier at Best Buy. Rough!

[Caliga]

I just saw on facebook that one of my Stanford peers has taken a position as a cashier at Best Buy. Rough!

*garbon likes this*

[Phillip V]

I just saw on facebook that one of my Stanford peers has taken a position as a cashier at Best Buy. Rough!

What's his/her story. How does that happen?

[garbon]

I believe it is his part-time / summer job apárt from being a teacher. How that happens? Decide to become a public school teacher.

[garbon]

I just saw on facebook that one of my Stanford peers has taken a position as a cashier at Best Buy. Rough!

*garbon likes this*

I was kinda appalled by the people who did.

[Caliga]

Will he be: forced to push drastically overpriced cables on old people! 

[Ideologue]

They can meta-metastasize any thematic or ideological notion they happen upon. And they get good grades for doing just that. But as for writing clearly, simply, with attention and openness to their own thoughts and emotions and the world around them — no.

Maybe he should have been more open to his own thoughts when he composed that paragraph.

[Ideologue]

Anyway, I judge too harshly, since I do that shit all the time.  I'll give a pass for trying to be clever and failing.  It's better than not trying.

What's not better is that it's just another rubbish article written by a person with an obvious financial and personal bias toward their own rubbish profession.  At least she's honest enough to admit there's no ROI to investing in one of her rubbish degrees, but cognitively dissonant enough to suggest we throw money into the garbage can for her anyway.  What a monster.

The canon — the books and writers we agree are worth studying — used to seem like a given, an unspoken consensus of sorts. But the canon has always been shifting, and it is now vastly more inclusive than it was 40 years ago. That's a good thing. What's less clear now is what we study the canon for and why we choose the tools we employ in doing so.

Why?  Well, the only obvious reason is "for fun," since it's become obvious that the "canon" has no bearing on anything that provides a living.  And, as it likely never has, except when only people who were already rich went to college and did so for a social and doctrinal education such as the "canon" dubiously provides, only the dregs of the 21st century world would choose a tool like an English professor to explore it.

[Camerus]

I believe it is his part-time / summer job apárt from being a teacher. How that happens? Decide to become a public school teacher.

If teachers are paid so low wherever that dude lives that they have to take jobs as cashiers at fucking Best Buy, then something is seriously wrong.

[Eddie Teach]

Teachers with no/little experience are underpaid. Teachers with 20-30 years of experience are still doing the exact same thing but getting paid pretty well. Obviously garbon's classmate doesn't have many years under his belt.

Teaching is not a path to riches by any means, but the stats I've seen put average teaching salaries consistently above median income. The argument most often put up that teachers are underpaid is comparing them by education level. Should teachers make as much as lawyers? No. Lawyers should make as little as teachers. 

[Camerus]

Do teacher pay scales have 20-30 steps on them where you live?

[Eddie Teach]

Looks to be 17.

http://www.sandi.net/cms/lib/CA01001235/Centricity/Domain/94/Teachers.pdf

[Phillip V]

Looks to be 17.

http://www.sandi.net/cms/lib/CA01001235/Centricity/Domain/94/Teachers.pdf

I assume that's just base salary. Do they eventually qualify for tenure, early retirement, and pensions/healthcare?

[Eddie Teach]

Yes, salary only. They get benefits on top.

Saw another page saying average SD teacher got 68k salary and 24k benefits.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Will he be: forced to push drastically overpriced cables on old people! 

Monster cables are monstrously good.