Choosing a career!!!

To become a teacher in the public school system all you need is a b.a. If you have a masters or doctorate you will get paid more. Teachers who had doctorate degrees in the school district I used to work in were making $90,000 plus a year. The health benefits and retirement plans are excellent, you get all holidays off and the summer too. Starting salaries range from $40,000 - $60, 000, a lot less for inner city schools.
The only problem I had with trying to balance teaching with a musical career was that I had to be up at 5:30 am during the week to make it in to school, not very pleasant if you were out gigging the night before and you didn't make it home until 3:30am.
As for lawyers vrs teachers, the law feild is so overpoppulated that most lawyers are starting out making $30,000 and working 8o hr weeks, you have to graduate in the top 5% of your class from a top law school to get that plush job from a big firm these days.

Originally posted by chris mood
To become a teacher in the public school system all you need is a b.a. If you have a masters or doctorate you will get paid more. Teachers who had doctorate degrees in the school district I used to work in were making $90,000 plus a year. The health benefits and retirement plans are excellent, you get all holidays off and the summer too. Starting salaries range from $40,000 - $60, 000, a lot less for inner city schools.

pony, chris mood just confirmed everything i just said. i have 3 aunts that are teachers, all making $60,000 a year +, plus 3 months off in the summer. why dont you rip out chris mood, if you feel that he's wrong too?

woo wooo woo
don't fight kids
who cares how much money a teacher gets?
the point is: NEVER base your life on fake belive youll have career in music buisness because 99.9% of us wont.
thats why im going to learn computers engineering when im out of the IDF

When I was 18, my latest band broke up. I had to choose whether was going to get a day job, or risk starving for the sake of my music. I got a day job. I still jam a bit, and I may get into a band that does the ocaisional weekend gig. I don't feel like I chickened out. Like the man says, 99.9% of don't have the drive, or the luck, to make it. I made my choice almost 32 years ago, (I turn 50 today). Looking back, it was the right choice for me. Only you can make that decision for you.

Happy 50th Birthday!!!!

happy b-day! :D

happy birthday man :)

Happy birthday Lord!

Zep: personally, I think that law would be a great feild to go into... admitidly it is screwy, but no where near as screw as poeple here think it is... Plus, there's no reason why you shouldn't do the whole music thing with yer course... (plus law students are hotties, ;)... well the ones living in my hall are anyway..ahem)...
Teaching would be very cool, but you've not specified what subject / level you want to teach at... I dont know about isreal, but over here, if you wanna teach at high school level or above, you need a degree in yer subject, and then do a two year course in teaching...

Acountancy: personally, the thought of being at a desk 9 to 5 doing sums, scares the bejesus out of me...

I definetly say go to uni... Socially, it's the best thing that can happen to you... it's fun (ok, ok, I admit my course gives us alot more work, while Geography students get drunk, but that's life)... Also trying to make it the world with out much qulifications is bloody well difficult, and it can be pretty bleak... I know, i'm seeing it my freinds who left school 3 or 4 years ago...

Music wise, Uni is great... there's soooo many poeple around, your bound to meet some one with similar ideas and intrests sooner or later (in most cases, it'll be like in the first week... or so i've found)...

Oh yeah, I have made freinds with a living ledgend... He's a guy in my hall, who can handle his drink like no-one i've ever seen before... He came and chatted to me at about 2 am last, and he seemed much more chatty than usual, and I could smell alcohol on his breath, but he wasn't slurrin ghis words, and he was moving about like he was stone cold sober... I nearly crapped my self, when i found out that he'd just had 15 PINTS!!!!! I dont drink at all, but even i know that's a hellova lot...

On the whole, I STRONGLY recommend uni... but all three courses sound pretty good...
Good Luck

and how would you know what i am and what im not, never seeing me before in your entire life?

yeah i agree with ya, most lawyers are dirt...love the story btw.

first and foremost, when you plan to have a fall back option you usually fall back on that option. I m gonna be a doctor and yet not a day goes by when i wish i was playing professional hockey. My point is do what you want cuz money is everything, if ur gonna do, dont back down till your dead or youve got what you want!

LOL, ponyone... the story is funny, but what has it got to do with lawyers being parasites/ dirt? That man's just a c-nt, nothing to do with being a lawyer...
I dont know... maybe because in the US things are much more commercially driven (and the frightning ability to sue someone just for looking at you cross eyed).. but over here lawyers are ok.. ofcourse they want to make money, but they do also have some principles...
We can thank lawyers for a lot laws defending our pay/ work hours/ the need for concent from doctors etc etc...