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Kesh
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Re: Is teaching a "decent job"?
Posted:
Aug 2, 2001 5:27 PM
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"Jos van Kan" <vankan@kabelfoon.nl> wrote in message
news://9kcf84$2uve$2@news.kabelfoon.nl...
> Jason wrote:
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> > There was an interesting debate in the thread "Mathematics Degree"
> > about whether teaching (in general but math in particular) constituted
> > a "decent job". Me and a few others said yes but the majority seemed
> > to think not, with a few people strongly opposed. Any comments?
> >
> > Jason
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> If you call a job that can be satisfying and rewarding "decent" then
> teaching (mathematics) is a decent job. If you look for fame and/or
riches,
> I guess you'd be barking up the wrong tree. But then I think you'd be
> barking up the wrong tree anyway.
I didn't find teaching mathematics satisfying or rewarding so I left. I now
teach children with learning difficulties all kinds of stuff; this is both
satisfying and rewarding.
Kesh
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