My mom is one, and she often puts in 50 hours a week, sometimes more with classroom and lesson plan prep, grading, time with parents, setting up individual education plans (17 kids, 11 IEPs this year!!), etc. My cousin is a first-year teacher, and she puts in 70+ hours a week.
The government of Québec only considers teachers to work something like 32 hours a week, and that is how they are paid. They aren’t considered to be full-time as compared to other government employees.
In the past several years, they have attempted to split the job up; hire some teachers at .65, others at .35 to take on a full class, but that has led to thousands of teachers only working part-time, for part-time pay and no benefits, and the burnout rate has gone up at the same time.
I don’t really know what my point is with this
At least with the other jobs in this thread, the assumption is that people are getting at minimum pay for 100% of a 40 hour work week, and everything else is above and beyond. I think teaching is a whole other animal when you consider how low they are paid and how all their extra hours are still expected, but not even recognised, let alone compensated by their employer!
Absolutely. And if I’d seen your post at a different point in my day, I might have talked myself out of making mine. But I wasn’t sure by the way that you’d constructed your post whether you were strictly referring to her hypothetical, or whether you had some experience with a similar situation.
And of course, now the field of education has come up,which while playing by rather different rules than the world of manufacturing that my dad works in, still deal with work which must be done even if it exceeds a reasonable number of hours per week, at least some of the time.
Absolutely. And if I’d seen your post at a different point in my day, I might have talked myself out of making mine. But I wasn’t sure by the way that you’d constructed your post whether you were strictly referring to her hypothetical, or whether you had some experience with a similar situation.
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Only the situation of having hobbies start to take up too much of my partner’s time and having a chat about it. I *wish *my husband’s work hours were greater! (Well, only if the pay were, too, I guess.) He’s been part-time adjunct faculty for so many years now, it will be wonderful once he’s got his PhD (he defends his dissertation in two weeks! - yay!) and is a better candidate for a full time gig.
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But it is a bit like your SO puts in a tremendous lot of energy into what is basically a hobby.
But you DO notice, as the day has only so much hours and your SO only so much energy, that home life suffers. Not much , but it is noticable. You do less fun things together, you have to do a bigger part of the chores, your spouse needs longer and longer to recuperate from the job every evening and every weekend.
How do you feel?
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When work becomes full-time-hobby, and the other person has made it clear that this is more important than me? I would end the relationship.
My last serious relationship before my husband was indirectly brought to an end by just this scenario. He was a SysAdmin/Programmer. Worked all day; came home and sat on the computer all night. Dinner was taken to him in the computer room. He’d come to bed after midnight.
Eventually, I got jack of being in a one-sided relationship, and cut my losses.
ETA: Just clarifying - the outside-of-work-hours stuff was totally voluntary and usually just his own little projects for his own interest.
