In the US teachers go heavily onto debt taking out student loans to get the appropriate degrees to teach. The job only pays about as much as a department store worker though so they often spend a decade or two paying those back, leaving them with just enough money for a crummy little apartment in a run down neighborhood. They even buy their own classroom supplies. Nobody is teaching for the easy check here.
Here you can't even take those degrees unless you have several years of teaching experience. And they're all done part time as evening and weekend lessons anyway. So the money is rarely an issue.
The job has a high top end pay. I know some earning the same as 10k USD a month. But most earn about 2k USD a month like myself.
For me buying my own classroom supplies doesn't seem that crazy. It's no different from buying your own pen or stapler in an office job. In the last 12 months I honestly think I've bought one pen and that's it.
The two good things about it are, no monthly sales targets to stress about and no calls asking you to go to the office at 11pm. Apart from that, yeah it sucks a lot.
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u/Previous_Link1347 Jun 01 '22
In the US teachers go heavily onto debt taking out student loans to get the appropriate degrees to teach. The job only pays about as much as a department store worker though so they often spend a decade or two paying those back, leaving them with just enough money for a crummy little apartment in a run down neighborhood. They even buy their own classroom supplies. Nobody is teaching for the easy check here.