Reply To: Should teachers/rebbis get a full time salary?

Syag, I am not condemning anyone. All I’m saying is that I think teachers undervalue the time they have off and the flexibility of their schedules when they assess their wages, and that those who complain about it should either get a different job, or stop whining about it.

Also, while I do value your virtue of sympathy, I really have no need for it. This is not something that has bothered me at all for well over a decade. Someone here suggested I have no right to an opinion since I don’t currently have kids in school. So, despite my belief that present irrelevance does not preclude an opinion, I presented the relevance to my life as an anecdote. If I have any virtue at all, it’s knowing and being comfortable with my own subconscious negias. I am not some scarred individual walking through life all pathetic-like and begging for pity. If anything, I still have a strong kesher with the rabbeim in my story. And, despite my offense at their prior comments, I appreciate that they showed me the harsh realities of being underemployed, which steered me away from being a marbitz Torah and motivated me to get a higher education in a STEM field, so I can help support their yeshiva, BS”D.