At least the FAANG tech group seems to have better hours. Maybe they have to in order to keep their skilled employees
Fortunately, there are now plenty of sources that discourage law school debt, including cc.
I work in higher education as an administrator. I work 50-60 hours a week, and I can’t really call my employer greedy. I would lean more toward clueless.
I don’t get paid a huge salary, so I am certainly not greedy.
What I am is a woman who stayed home with my kids for many years. I don’t regret it, but the reality is that it impacted our ability to save for retirement. When I returned to full time work, I took a job that paid less than I earned my first year out of college (it took me two years to get a job that paid even that well). I have worked my way up in my career, but I still make less than I should. I take the abuse from an organization that expects too much of me because I just want to make sure we can be comfortable in retirement.
No one pushed me into staying home all those years, which is a good thing. If I had felt pushed, I would sure resent my present situation. As it is, I understand that no one gets to have it all.
A friend of my son’s works in the development office of a top private Uni. She easily puts in 60+ hours per week, particularly given all the after-hours functions that require attendance & schmoozing.
I believe we’re in agreement. The $100k employees at my kid’s company aren’t technically part time, but they are treated inferiorly, with lower pay and fewer promotions.
DH (science research) works 60+ hours a week, though a fair amount of it is at home on his laptop. I worked part time when the kids were young. Started my own firm when my youngest was six and slowly ramped up hours. I remember giving a talk about how more flexible hours for both sexes would be better for families back in the mid 1990s. I also remember one of my clients a high-powered lawyer just quit completely when her kids were six or seven because she was tired of not seeing them.
There is a cluster of parents (men and women) with law degrees at one of my kid’s school, and one of them commented to me years ago that none of them work as lawyers anymore because they hated it so much. Are the long hours the primary issue in that profession?
Wish I made anything close to $110k.
I just noticed this statement at the beginning of the thread.
I don’t think teaching is uniquely compatible with raising a family. In fact, it has significant disadvantages. Low pay. High stress. Inflexible hours. Lots of papers to grade and lessons to plan, much of it on what is allegedly your own time.
About the only advantage of teaching for a parent is that you don’t need to struggle to make child care arrangements for school-age kids during the summer. I have a friend who loves that aspect of teaching and how it makes her work/life balance easier. But it’s not because she’s a teacher. She isn’t one. It’s her husband who teaches and who takes charge of their children in the summers.
Teaching is a very low stress job, unless you mean at the college level. It’s almost impossible to be fired after your probationary period, in comparison to up or out situations such as big law, finance, management consulting, or military officers where you either get promoted to the next level or terminated.
Seriously? I was just a substitute teacher & I know teaching is really, really hard.
Teaching also gives you much better hours than most full time jobs. I have many friends who teach who can easily make it to most after school activities or be home in more than enough time to help their own kids with homework and make dinner all before 5 pm. They also are off all those minor holidays as their kids. Get a winter and spring break and as @rothlisbuger said cant get fired unless they’ve committed a huge transgression. And those who teach kindergarten thru 4Th grade (where homework here takes little time to grade ) have all said that except for when they were first starting and had to spend a great deal of time lesson planning they don’t spend more than an extra hour a day doing any work before or after school.
“Teaching is a very low stress job”
LOL. Here’s someone who’s never worked with parents.
@roethlisburger, clearly you have never taught.
My original comment about teaching being conducive to raising a family was purely about how scheduling aligns with kids’ schedule.
Teaching is extremely difficult, and I also recognize that having summers “off” with the kids is not really a vacation for the teacher. But, nevertheless, teaching has been a workable solution for many families.
Its not either/or deb. One can always attend a lower ranked law school with merit money (and less debt).
Huh? Who is telling women not to get an advanced degree?
Every single time I read how easy teaching is, I wonder why the person who wrote those words didn’t choose such a cushy job.
Gotta run now and tackle more of those Junior letters of recommendation.
My D’s boyfriend is an engineer for one of those companies (in SV HQ) and he routinely puts in 55+ hours/week, including plenty of all-nighters prior to a release or even after a release when a big bug is found.
Teaching is low paid where I live, but it is a low stress job with good hours.