“How much knowledge do you need to put kids in line? How much knowledge and experience do you think one needs to fix a mission critical multi million dollar system that breaks down in the middle of the night and needs to be resolved before the start of business next morning?”
Did you teach yourself the math and science required to be able to “fix mission critical” systems? If not, aren’t you glad your math and science teachers were paid more than 30K a year….c’mon those are fast-food manager wages, dude!!
Also, teachers are working with valuable “systems” as well, if you consider that each human will be around for an extra 50-70 years beyond high school.
When you begin to think of yourself as doing God’s work, err..working on mission critical systems, lest ye never forget that Enron and pets.com both had mission critical systems, too (how’d that work out for everybody??)….most of us believe that fat, donut-eating geeks, who live for Comic-con (not teachers) are the ones who are overpaid;)
