>>So someone with no work experience but with a college degree can make $44K/year, and you want the upper limit, even after 25 years and for teachers living in an expensive city, to be $60K/year. This is not reasonable.
What? To say that I want them to make no more than 60K shows you're not even reading what I wrote.
>> I guess I should take a pay cut because I find my work to be interesting.
What again? You clearly don't get that what I'm saying, which is that people in ivory towers should not be making decisions on what people make, the market should.
You wrote "What my beef is with are teachers that make 60K plus, get 3 months off, have more stable job security than the private sector, get to spend time talking about interesting things like world wars in history class or Hemingway in english and then complain that they don't make as much as me, a software developer who spends chunks of my day on mundane tasks such as fixing 'Out of Memory' errors or 'Null Pointer' exceptions'."
I am replying specifically to those points. Okay, you're complaint is that they are complaining that they don't make enough as you do. Well, cry me a river. They can complain all that they want. Part of the free market says that they can use whatever strategy they find most effective. If one of their 10 complaints is to point out that by paying under market rate means that the best and the brightest are more likely drawn into dumb-ass programming jobs where people moan about memory leaks all day, rather than help teach the next generation of citizens what it means to be a citizen, then I say fine, they should go for it.
Yes, you get to complain all you want about their complaints. But as you have no evidence to back up your claims that listening to teenagers talk about Hemingway is part of the job satisfaction worth a $40K difference in pay, then I don't see see the problem, and you aren't worth listening to.
What? To say that I want them to make no more than 60K shows you're not even reading what I wrote.
>> I guess I should take a pay cut because I find my work to be interesting.
What again? You clearly don't get that what I'm saying, which is that people in ivory towers should not be making decisions on what people make, the market should.