Corona Virus Concerns
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Lucky you, David.
I remember the 70s, in particular, as a time of low pay, rampant inflation, sky high mortgage rates, industrial unrest, shortages, the 3 day week, power cuts.... Then came Legionaires' disease and HIV.
I see more similarities with the current situation than I do with your description.
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And all us yokals who have locked ourselves away to protect our communities. will remain locked away as the hoards of people who think this is all over because the R rate in their area is going down abuse the so called ease (end) of lockdown.
How long will we now have to stay away from our own towns beaches and forests to protect ourselves as we live with the ignorance and stupidity of others. 470 acres of Wareham forest burnt down this week killing innumerable amounts of rare species of wildlife and plants involved 160 fire fighters from over 20 stations...I wonder what caused it another disposable barbeque perhaps?.
all the carparks are still closed so now we have to put up cars and vans blocking roads pavements and now the council are banning walking dogs on the beach (happens in summer anyway) not because residents have asked for it, but because the 'visitors' who shouldn't be here yet, have complained.
We live in a selfish society
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Our DIL and SIL are both teachers, they are both on a rota to supervise children of key workers at the same hub school, but are otherwise working from home, setting and marking work for their classes and taking part in various meetings on line.
They are receiving their pay as usual and seem to me quite well paid as both are now at the top of their pay scale, so would need a promoted post to improve their income.
Up here the starting salary for a teacher is around £27500, and top of scale for an unpromoted post is around £41500.
Head in a subject is paid between £45000 and £58000, which is what SIL is aiming at meantime.
He also does private tutoring and earns a bit extra doing exam marking too.
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Although it's certainly not minimum wage I don't think £27500 is particularly well paid for a job as demanding as teaching. The head of subject salary is certainly a decent wage though.
Good luck to your SIL😊
I suppose I'm just inclined to consider professional vocations as deserving higher pay.
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Kj our daughter's take home pay for her four day week (which often extends into evening meetings with parents etc) is way below your quoted £27000. It possibly doesn't even hit the 20k mark. She was previously head of department but decided to step back from the stress following a bad bout of pneumonia. The drop out rate for teachers is sadly high.
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Good. You agree with me that the current/future situation appears somewhat akin to my description of 40/50 years ago. Your experience was clearly different which is good although the myth of a job for life was well and truly disproved at that time.
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in what way? and how do you know?
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+1
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One day you might make a friendly post, Fish.
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I suspect you are not alone David. Many of our generation will have gone through life working for the same company, I did 46 year with the same company. We may not have been rich and there were some rocky times along the way but many of our generation retired (not all at 50!) with fairly decent pensions. Since then the whole world seems to have been thrown up in the air and not just by corona virus. I suppose each generation has to make the best of what they have and whilst we can't really change things for them some will achieve and some won't as ever was the case!
David
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I have teachers in the family, before I knew better i viewed the job as a cushy number until over the years I realised they hardly ever clock off. Most of us have jobs-teachers have vocations. Many a time they’ve missed family events due to school events that clashed & won. I was paid more than them & did a lot less hours. I respect their commitment.
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That’s what happens when health is brought down to the cheapest price possible. We should have world class industries manufacturing all critical safety wear.
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Ooh, that's very controversial and a very narrow view.
I think you'll find teachers often work longer hours than, say, plumbers and without their dedication said plumbers wouldn't be where they are. 👍
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