[Mith2]

make about $40,000 per year....nice work ...unionized of course...

yeah our tax dollars hard at work...... what a joke....

more than most teachers.....

guess we have our priorities straight!

[[echo]]

'zact change.

[Bob Kohm]

Originally posted by Mithrandir
make about $40,000 per year....nice work ...unionized of course...

yeah our tax dollars hard at work...... what a joke....

more than most teachers.....

guess we have our priorities straight!

Hmm, based on the level of bitterness towards other working people I'm guessing they make more than librarians too.

[[echo]]

sheesh Bhob - that was pretty snarky and dismissive.

[Catfishkid]

Don't most homeless people make more than librarians?

[Mr. Squidward]

EZPASS EZPASS EZPASS!!!!!!

(no relation to EZEagle.....)

[Mith2]

Originally posted by Bob Kohm
Hmm, based on the level of bitterness towards other working people I'm guessing they make more than librarians too.

well they work harder

and i get the immeasurable benefit of posting on here while at work....

and i'll bet all those that pay the recently increased toll on the 'pike will see your point of view...

but as with a lot of people...you seem to downplay education by making jokes.......

[Bob Kohm]

Originally posted by Mithrandir


but as with a lot of people...you seem to downplay education by making jokes.......

Yeah, right, the guy who's changing careers at 34, giving up the freedom and money of working for myself in communications to become a high school teacher is in the practice of downplaying education. :rolleyes:

Maybe it's that I'm not in the practice of bemoaning people who make more money than I do (or will)...

[B-Fly]

Until they can get an EZPass in every car and an EZPass reader at every toll, they need to get somebody to take the friggin' job. Toll booth workers have to spend their entire shift in bad weather conditions sucking up nasty exhaust fumes, and there is almost no personal satisfaction in the work. Since we cannot generally force a person to take a specific job, the salaries for unpleasant jobs like toll booth worker or sanitation worker has to go up enough to entice people to do it. Meanwhile, there are people who will give their right arm to be, say, a journalist, so despite the fact that journalism may require more skill, the starting salary will often be a lot lower. That's basically the free market at work.

[yoyoma]

i can't BELIEVE anyone would bitch about a full time worker getting 40K a year, unless they were saying it's too little. sheesh.

[senorsheep]

Originally posted by Bob Kohm
Yeah, right, the guy who's changing careers at 34, giving up the freedom and money of working for myself in communications to become a high school teacher is in the practice of downplaying education. :rolleyes:

Maybe it's that I'm not in the practice of bemoaning people who make more money than I do (or will)...

Aw, Christ, another liberal poisoning young minds in the classroom? Does it ever end?

[Mith2]

Originally posted by Bob Kohm
Yeah, right, the guy who's changing careers at 34, giving up the freedom and money of working for myself in communications to become a high school teacher is in the practice of downplaying education. :rolleyes:

Maybe it's that I'm not in the practice of bemoaning people who make more money than I do (or will)...

my point is not to bemoan people making more money than me...it's that priorities are screwed up.....

Pa. can pay toll booth workers $40,000 a year but i go to schools where the average copyright date on the books in the school library is 1975... but the state doesn't have enough money to rectify this problem....

sure the salary of toll booth workers may seem minimal in the scheme of the state budget, but it's indicative of the overall problem...

and yet the majority of you chastise me instead of the system... sigh...

[B-Fly]

Originally posted by Mithrandir
my point is not to bemoan people making more money than me...it's that priorities are screwed up.....

Pa. can pay toll booth workers $40,000 a year but i go to schools where the average copyright date on the books in the school library is 1975... but the state doesn't have enough money to rectify this problem....

sure the salary of toll booth workers may seem minimal in the scheme of the state budget, but it's indicative of the overall problem...

and yet the majority of you chastise me instead of the system... sigh...

Would you give up your librarian job to work as a toll collector for $40,000/year? I'm guessing no. Would a toll collector take a pay cut to have your job and get the heck out of that hot, smelly booth? More likely, but not if he and his family need the extra money. That's why they need to pay him more to keep him there, and they don't need to pay you more to keep you where you are. It may suck, but that is to some degree the essence of a free market economy.

[pjs24]

You're a librarian? How lucky of you to get that job!! No wonder you base everything on luck, your job takes no skill at all!

[Catfishkid]

Originally posted by B-Fly
Toll booth workers have to spend their entire shift in bad weather conditions sucking up nasty exhaust fumes, and there is almost no personal satisfaction in the work.

No personal satisfaction?????

C'mon. Can you imagine the state quarter collections these people have? Probably put most people to shame. No satisfaction......really.

[senorsheep]

Originally posted by B-Fly
Would you give up your librarian job to work as a toll collector for $40,000/year? I'm guessing no. Would a toll collector take a pay cut to have your job and get the heck out of that hot, smelly booth? More likely, but not if he and his family need the extra money. That's why they need to pay him more to keep him there, and they don't need to pay you more to keep you where you are. It may suck, but that is to some degree the essence of a free market economy.

No, privatizing the job and watching the salary drop about 50% to reflect the skills required for the position would be the essence of a free market economy.

[BuckyBuckner]

Originally posted by pjs24
You're a librarian? How lucky of you to get that job!! No wonder you base everything on luck, your job takes no skill at all!

That's why they have graduate programs to become a librarian. Try to limit your comments to what you know about.

Oh wait, then you'd never post again.

[pjs24]

Originally posted by BuckyBuckner
Try to limit your comments to what you know about.

Oh wait, then you'd never post again.

Woulda been funny if it were anywhere near being true, but alas....

[Mith2]

Originally posted by BuckyBuckner
That's why they have graduate programs to become a librarian. Try to limit your comments to what you know about.

Oh wait, then you'd never post again.

he really knows poker......

so he tells everyone ..over and over and over

[Papa Deuce]

Originally posted by Mithrandir
make about $40,000 per year....nice
more than most teachers.....

Well, in PA the most teachers make is 76 thousand, or around there. And remember that they do get 3 months off. Plus they don't sit there and inhale exhaust fumes 8 hours a day.

That said, I do think many teachers need to make more money.