Could you genuinely earn 1000 a day tiling?
Thatās an awful lot, and, if so, a reflection of why Ireland will eventually run into trouble like before.
As an aside, I have a pal who is a fully private surgeon in Ireland. He told me that taking into account insurance, costs, holidays etc, he reckoned he needed to earn about two and a half times the HSE public sector consultant salary to be equivalent.
There are plenty of nurses who wouldnāt work to warm themselves. Itās the same in most any public sector job. Teaching should be done by the best teachers society can provide. I think in Ireland the salary is relatively very good (salaries in Ireland are very high almost across the board, so to speak), but teaching should be excellent and the pay should reflect this.
Why should it be excellent when there is no accountability. The issue with teaching as Tomas OāSe put it - that most people do it for the hours and unbelievable leave.
That doesnāt attract the best teachers. It attracts people who want to do the least work.
A teachers salary should run from 25k-40k, Iād stick 10k each side of it for a teacher in Dublin. Thatās still excellent pay for what in effect is a part time job.
āItās a tough job.ā āItās an important jobā
Anyone can frame an argument for their own job Iām sure in the same way so we need to stop pretending teachers are unique there when they spin that one as they defend their unrivalled perks and massive pay (as they hold the country to ransom looking for more).
I donāt see why you are so rattled by it and want to censor me speaking the truth about teachers and their sense of entitlement. They should be extremely grateful for the unbelievable perks and pay most other professions could only dream of.
A wife and 4 kids, a middling mortgage, a Holiday (even in Ireland), Christmas expenses, car tax and insurance, essential household maintenance, weekly shopping, medical expenses,
And all that on a little over 650 a week, not much of a life Iād say. Would my wife be entitled to for? I know weād have childrenās allowance, what else?
Iām not playing the poor mouth, Iād do it for half the money because thatās not a worry I have thankfully.
I seem to have upset a few people with my daily tiling rate, I never suggested for a second that anybody could do that everyday, sometimes youād get lucky with a nice job and easily earn a thousand a day, most days wouldnāt be anything like that but would far outstrip what I earn in the classroom
Thereās lads pulling in a grand a day in consultancy and all they do is show up and tell the company everything theyāre doing is wrong and they need more consultancy
Thereās not many jobs that will cover you for 4 kids and a mortgage on one salary.
I have two separate points to conclude. I think teachers have a very important role in society and deserve to be well paid for that. I think most people here including myself will have had a few teachers at least who had a positive impact on their childhood.
I also separately think that the poor mouth being played by @backinatracksuit is ridiculous on a job which actually has a decent starting salary as entry jobs go (I realise young teachers get shafted) and increases every year from there.
point is the reason tradesmen charge so much is because the work can dry up for large periods .with A teachers salary you know whatās coming over a lifetime and can cut your cloth accordinglyā¦over a lifetime youāll probably end up richer than a lot of tradesmen who are in and out of work ā¦I have massive respect for teachers and what they do but I donāt buy the poor mouth stuff a lot of them go on with ā¦