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As someone raised by two teachers I can say that my parents both had to work two to four different jobs at times just to struggle to keep up. Whatever that sta
by nitrogen 7y ago
As someone raised by two teachers I can say that my parents both had to work two to four different jobs at times just to struggle to keep up. Whatever that statistic is claiming, it doesn't reflect reality in at least some cases.
- cortesoft 7y agoInteresting... both my parents were teachers, and we lived comfortably enough (not rich, but never felt deprived)
- sokoloff 7y agoSame here, but I recall my parents doing side hustles working nights at the drive-in, on summer breaks filling gardens for cash, cutting firewood, doing renovation projects on rental properties we would buy to fix and rent, running a snow plow truck 12-16 hours during storms (teachers get snow days in MD, so snow plow is a near-perfect side hustle), etc.
- barry-cotter 7y agoIf you could share something about where and when your parents were working that would be most informative, thanks. Certainly there are outliers in every population but the study is talking about the teaching population, on average.
- nitrogen 7y agoUtah, in a not-particularly-rich-but-not-middle-of-nowhere rural/suburban district, starting in the 1980s