Priorities, priorities
This CNN/CareerBuilder.com piece lists the 12 most "everlasting" jobs - jobs which they say will always exist, regardless of how society moves: Doctor, teacher, mortician, waste disposal, scientist, tax collector, barber, soldier, farmer, religious leader, law enforcement, construction worker.
Apparently the average teacher makes slightly less than to slightly more than one-third what the average doctor makes. Median salary for doctors: $120,000. K-12 teachers: $41,000 - $45,000.
Can someone explain to me why we're willing to dump money on doctors but not teachers? Give me a choice between a society without doctors and a society without k-12 teachers, and I'll pick the former in an instant. Not to mention the fact that it seems in modern medical systems doctors don't actually, you know, do anything: nurses deal with patients, techs draw blood and hand out medications, doctors take a glance at all the observations the nurse has written down, stamp their signature on it, and charge you two hundred bucks for it.
Labels: common sense, jobs, money
posted by NinjaGeek @ 7:58 PM
1 Comments:
Because by "doctors" they mean "people who make you stop being sick/hurt." Honestly, for survival, I think doctors are more necessary than teachers, at least as a pure profession. If you've got a group of people living purely for survival, any teaching of youngsters will be done by the group as a whole, or as an apprenticeship system (I.e., I'm good at making this tool and you seem to have an aptitude, so I'll help you along a bit) rather than one person sitting and teaching stuff. A single person dedicated to healing is more necessary than a single person dedicated to teaching.
This is, of course, coming from someone who's starting to think she'll end up a Latin and/or Greek teacher. Utterly useless if you're talking survival.
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