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Originally Posted by als463
Sad, isn't it? They keep trying to push a lot of us into taking on a geriatrics role but, I could never do that. I could, if I had to but, I wouldn't love my job. I always tell people that, I don't need to make a lot of money-I just want to make a difference. I have made a difference in the lives of various people and that's worth more than money, to me.
AGDee, where do you live? I'm coming there to work. I figure that if I'm so far in college debt (to the point of sacrificing my future first born), I may as well get into a field that I love. I am looking at furthering my education beyond this point but, who knows-maybe I'll just keep doing what I'm doing.
I really do hope that things get squared away in Wisconsin, though. Everybody suffers.
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My key word there was probably ACSW. ACSWs can be therapists and bill insurance directly or charge/hour in private practice.
People need to keep in mind that for a teacher to make that $50K (or up to $70K in the city of Detroit), they need to have a Master's degree (also true of ACSWs), Specialists Degree or PhD. I know in most of the school districts around here, starting salary as a new teacher is around $34K. Compare that to a mechanical engineer who starts out around $60K. For every 10 credits of graduate work teachers do, they get an automatic bump in pay. I can't even imagine someone with an MBA being happy with $50K/year yet we're talking about the same amount of education.
And that Wisconsin governor who is doing all this? His salary? $137,092.
The legislators? Base salary: $49,943/year PLUS $88 a day for each day they are actually in session. That same Governor? No college degree because he left school his senior year.
http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.ph...lker#Education
http://sunshinereview.org/index.php/...e-legislator-3
ETA: At least Michigan's governor who is making drastic cuts has cut his own salary to $1/year.