Good advice for college students

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Originally Posted by AstroBlue

I'm not sure if you can compare wages considering they are reliant more than just exchange rates; but in Australia, first year out High School Teachers get payed $US40'000 annually. What's it like in USA?

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I think it changes per state. It is something mind numbingly low, considering they have to deal with children.

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Originally Posted by AstroBlue

Ah... so it's about the same. Then why does IronPlant act like teachers get given two beans and a food coupon?

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it is shit here. I'd say it's about $25-28K/yr and the jobs are hard to get because teachers all teach till they're 70 years old.

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Originally Posted by stormy

how about Math majors and Physics majors? I'm an EE and i had 4 semesters of calc and 2 of physics.

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Those are "core" classes for those majors. Shit like American lit 2, would be requirements for those people.

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Originally Posted by IronPlant

I think it changes per state. It is something mind numbingly low, considering they have to deal with children.

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Indeed, they do deserve a lot more. Considering dumbasses can get payed like 10x more for applying simple common sense in business. But $38k when you're young is very doable.

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Originally Posted by stormy

it is shit here. I'd say it's about $25-28K/yr and the jobs are hard to get because teachers all teach till they're 70 years old.

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There seems to be a lot of competition to. I know at least of 50% of the females in my graduating class went for teaching. 40% for nursing, and the rest went for art, pre med, or law.

Having Melf as a teacher would be the coolest thing ever

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Originally Posted by IronPlant

There is a difference between an English major and an English teacher. A lot of people go for an English major because they want to write, not because they want to teach. For an English major to teach highschool and under, they have to go back to college and take teaching classes. If they want to teach at a good college they need to go back and get something past a masters in English. Four years of classes at a typical college is not enough to get the jobs you describe in the US. There are exceptions, but what I've described is how it typically works here.

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I was referring to teaching. The averages I posted are for teachers with 4 years of college, including teaching (education) courses.

Writers may starve but a teacher with an MA definitely won't.

meh, who would want to teach carpet monkeys how to read?

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Originally Posted by Melf

If you want to avoid the potheads and high school pussies, take class at night. It's an entirely different environment, as most of the students work during the day and WANT to be there to learn. They don't have time to fuck around and pretend college is high school advance.

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If only i could. I work 5-11 now, and my choice for class was either 8-1 or 1-6, and 1-6 wouldn't give me much time for work. I have to work because I pay my tuition monthly. Believe me, if I could go at night, I would.

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Well what are they lacking? Are they screwing up spelling or grammar? Because that really isn't there highschool teachers fault. They stop teaching kids grammar and how to spell around the 8th grade. I personally think that is a bad idea because that means a student will go 4 years with out seeing technical grammar rules before jumping into college. @_@ some college teachers are known for dropping students a letter grade for each misspelled word and/or grammar mistake.

Or do they not know MLA guidelines? Students who were not lucky enough to learn those need to head over to ebay or amazon and get a copy of the MLA guide.

I hope you aren’t getting mad at the students who are paying attention and still mess up on what you want. You are human and probably don’t always communicate what you want done on your homework as clearly as you would like to think you do.

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I should have been more specific about work. The school I'm going to has no general education classes; its all classes relating to your major. My major is Visual Communications, and for all our assignments we have guidelines, like image size/canvas size/what type of materials to use, etc. Its so that we become accustomed to following the guidelines we'll more than likely have when we get jobs and such. Those are the ones they don't follow, and then proceed to bring in work they did the night before or even some cases, in the hallway before the teacher comes in.

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Originally Posted by Lordmrw

Those are the ones they don't follow, and then proceed to bring in work they did the night before or even some cases, in the hallway before the teacher comes in.

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lol, that reminds me of how in highschool I would totally forget to do my sketches for art class. I would usually just go out into the parking lot and sketch cars and turn that in.