Venting!!

[Sian]

.....He took up bar tending at night but still is looking at a 50% reduction in pay. Sadly, I looks like he will probably loose his house trying to complete this. IMHO forcing people to work for free should be illegal, even if the do call it schooling.

hey rizzmo, ur buddy needs 2 get a roommate if he lives alone or rent 2 a family member if he doesn't. pronto. it is redundant 2 pay 4 student teachin... he also needs 2 c if he can apply for grants b/c he's goin in the teachin field.

[Bades]

The student teaching requirement is also hurting a friend of mine. He currently makes $23k a year at a dead end job that keeps lowering his wage. So he went back to school to become a teacher. I know out of a seemingly infinite amount of possible careers you might think he would pick one that would greatly improve his financial situation, however he is happy with his decision and I am happy for him. Anyway, he is extremely frugal and has been able to purchase a house, a paid for car, and paid for all his previous schooling. Now he has to start student teaching this fall. This means he had to quit his lousy day job, put in 8 hour a day plus time at night for planning for the next day, pay for the privilege of working for free, and at the end of it all he will most likely make a whooping 30-45k year if he can even find a job. He took up bar tending at night but still is looking at a 50% reduction in pay. Sadly, I looks like he will probably loose his house trying to complete this. IMHO forcing people to work for free should be illegal, even if the do call it schooling.

I feel you rizzmo.

I feel people going into education should get mass discounts for school. They pay they same tuition I did for my MIS degree yet they won't even make close to what i could potentially make, and most important of all. They are teaching our kids and our future.

[disneysteve]

Education students are not alone. Many college students do unpaid work and have to pay tuition to do it. I think that is the case for nearly everyone in healthcare.

Yep. The last 2 years of medical school are totally spent in clinical rotations. I still paid full tuition for those 2 years even though I was working in various hospitals and doctor's offices treating patients that whole time.

[gambler2075]

Yep. The last 2 years of medical school are totally spent in clinical rotations. I still paid full tuition for those 2 years even though I was working in various hospitals and doctor's offices treating patients that whole time.

Yeah, waking up at 4am to round on your surgery patients pretty much sucked in those rotations, not to mention paying tens of thousands of dollars for that 'privilege', only to get pimped out by your attending later that day... ah, the good ol' days. I gotta hand it to those surgeons, I could NEVER do what they do, and living that lifestyle...

g

p.s. I found out the hard way that the slang term 'getting pimped' is not universal in the allied health professions... I asked this female pharmacy student if the attending had pimped her, like he tried to pimp all the students, and she literally turned bright red

OOOPS!!!



p.p.s. 'Pimping' for those that might not be familiar with the term:

Neonatology on the Web: Art of Pimping

[FrugalFroggie]

Once she gets a teaching job, she may qualify for student loan reductions. If the school that hires her is a public school with a high poverty rate, she may be able to get the reduction. Good luck to both of you.