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Was just about to quote that. No doubt we will still hear complaints.
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I am sure teaching can be a horrendous job at times, long hours, stressful, badly behaved pupils to deal with. I have several friends who are teachers who without exception they say long holidays are necessary to recharge the batteries. My wife is a senior neuro therapist for the NHS. Her job is extremely stressful. Long hours, this week she will be in for 6 days, 8.30-6.30. Most days are an 10 hour days with breaks and lunch taken "on the hoof." She gets 5 weeks holiday a year + bank holidays which she usually has to work. She is doing a lot of study work at home, some evenings and on her days off. She has been on courses in other parts of the country, the trust has only financed a couple of them, we have always had to pay for travel and accommodation. This December she is away again for 4 days, including the weekend. The Friday and Monday will be taken as annual leave. She loves her job and she is a well respected clinician. Why cant she have long holidays to "recharge her batteries?"
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I haven't read whole thread but I can give a factual view of nursing salaries. My partner manages 45 midwives, works at least 10 hours a day, is on call, works with all vunerable new borns from a safeguarding perspective, has been in the NHS as a nurse and midwife for 23 years and earns £45,000 at the top end of a salary grade. It would be wrong to assume that a nurse will ever earn £97,000. My partner does not know anyone who earns this; even an associate director of a whole division.
Many health professionals are also having their pensions impacted but choose to belong to unions with no strike policies.
I never said I was a public sector worker
My work does mean I get to see the staggering amount of cash wasted by the public sector on a daily basis though. The government would be far better plugging these hole in their finances before implementing blanket cuts and punishing the few groups that do actually work hard and contribute something meaningful to society.
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Doorman at the Houses of Parliament perchance?
I did work on site there for a bit. "Doorman" would've been a cool job as they all seemed to have automatic weapons
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I was a secondary school teacher for 4 years. If you haven't been a teacher you have no idea how hard a job it is. I've done lots of other jobs in my life and teaching is the hardest I've done.
I've done manual labour, i've done boring shelf stacking, I've done a wide variety of jobs, I would put teaching 32 14 year olds as one of the hardest jobs you can do, teachers should get paid double what they get now.
The fact is, unless you've been there, you don't know what you are talking about.
p.s. it's not the only job that should get paid double by the way!!! There's a whole load of others too!
I've done manual labour, i've done boring shelf stacking, I've done a wide variety of jobs, I would put teaching 32 14 year olds as one of the hardest jobs you can do, teachers should get paid double what they get now.
The fact is, unless you've been there, you don't know what you are talking about.
p.s. it's not the only job that should get paid double by the way!!! There's a whole load of others too!
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