Former teacher on why he walked away from teaching for a job at Walmart l GMA
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- čas přidán 12. 09. 2024
- Seth Goshora wants his friends in education to be better compensated.
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Walmart workers get paid more than teachers...let that sank in.
No, he’s a Walmart MANAGER. That’s different
@@CZcamsReady ok, but still ......
Walmart bonuses are great too. At 55K, he's definitely a manager of some type. Not the top store manager, but one of the managers. It's really easy to become an assistant manager at Walmart too. Basically, you go through a training program and bang you're in. But it's not such an easy job.
Hell yeah. On top of that, less stress and better benefits
He should get his CDL and he’ll double his income driving for their fleet. There are many other jobs that pay > $55k.
Some of these people are lost. Avg teacher salary in Ohio is $63,000. He should’ve focused on teaching and not the money, because teaching is really never about the money. He was working Walmart on the weekends. I have a government job. I work at Target Sat and Sun for just for the exercise.
This is heartbreaking 💔 these teachers want to teach but can't because the job doesn't pay that much.... This is really utterly sad ☹️
Pretty soon, we'll have illegal immigrants teaching our children 😆
Schools are turning to other counties such as the vif program. We have several teachers in our country hired from the Philippines and Jamaica for example. Still can't find local people to fill these many vacant slots
So is the pay for law enforcement officers.
@@marypasco2213 😔
At my mom's dinner table, we used to have five educators and three pastors. Now we only have ONE teacher and ONE pastor. Why? Because the jobs are now so stressful and filled with people who seem to want to try to catch you doing wrong instead of applauding you for giving to your community. Pastors are leaving the ministry in droves and there are SO FEW teachers that in the USA we opened the school year with over a quarter of a MILLION vacancies. Teaching is now the impossible job. The only one of our family that is still a teacher wants to leave, and he has a doctoral degree, so that may be possible as the economy picks back up.
I left the teaching profession to become an Air Force fighter pilot. Best career decision I’ve made ever! I currently teach young USAF student pilots how to fly the T-38 Talon.
Cool!
This is awesome!
As a teacher I’ve always contemplated joining the Air Force. I scored super high on my ASVAB in high school and got lots of calls. I guess fear drove me to not do it..
Sad. From an AF vet I hated working on the aircraft and the sheer waste and pollution I witnessed. If we didn't have an 850 billion dollar military we could pay teachers what they deserve and make the system work.
Yeah, like the ‘good academic award’ …I deserved a correction of my finances that is related to education, only to get ‘screwed’ over because it’s divided between ‘hearing to hearing’ OR ‘Deaf to Deaf’ ratio depending on households. Not an individual with an equipments with BOTH ‘hearing/deaf’ with the recognition….yet I couldn’t even believe my eyes that I saw that people do have …’dead files’ to play ‘games’ with people.
wow! You always hear about teachers not making good money but I didn't know it was this bad. That's crazy. He has to do what he has to do to be able to provide for his family.
Yeah, where I'm from, starting teachers sometimes even make less than that! I've met some starting in the low $30,000 range. 😭
It’s bad. Early childhood teachers (degrees or not) make 20k-30k and we hardly get benefits if any
And you aren't trying to break up a fight with children that will also punch you in the face....
LOL yep!
You haven’t been to a Walmart.
We do not get paid enough... its more than the pay ... its the open house nights that you are out until 8pm. It's the lesson plans you stay at until 6:30 every night. It's the constant meetings, no breaks, student behaviors. I have taught for four years and this will be my last year. I work a second job just so we can eat.
What is your second job?
I understand this decision .. have a master's degree and love teaching however I sadly left my preschoolers and kinders because the pay just wasn't there for what I need to do.. I hope to one day return to this wonderful career...
If it wasn't for our teachers, we wouldn't even get to college level, we wouldn't know how to read or the basics of math. It's crazy that the people that start our learning foundation get paid 🥜
Anyone considering becoming a teacher just don’t do it! It’s horrible!!! I personally would rather eat sht all day than ever go back in a classroom.
This just shouldn’t be, it shouldn’t! They should be some of the highest paid employees for what they do and what they endure. 😡
I got my teaching degree in May of this year, now. I left it all behind to work at target and I make the same amount I would have as a first year teacher.
Thats sad im a 19 year old making 22 an hour 40 hours a weel making around 44,000. Teachers are honestly terribly overworked
Ummmm sir what do you work in? Pharmacy technician? Amazon?
Teaching sucks. My biggest regret is becoming a teacher.
It totally sucks. It depends on the district to the degree of suckyness though.
I think it depends on the school and admin as well.
Same
My buddy is an online teacher and gets paid to give an assignment and watch tv in his house.
Same bro it's torture. I get cussed out by 12 year old girls daily
If his base is 55,000 then he’s obviously was offered a above entry level job.
Why would you not discourage someone from becoming a teacher, if you aren’t compensated and or treated well. 😳
He's a great teacher and Christian
Yessir.
Everyone: We’re in trouble.
Be careful, Walmart treats their managers poorly. Supposed to be 4 10 hour days 3 off. Both my sons worked in store management. It was more like 12 hour shifts with a 4 hour break before starting the next 12 shift and being threatened with job loss. Often they would only get 4-6 hours between shifts and rarely had one full day off. They were on salary so there was no overtime for the 40-50 hours of overtime given. Yes they matched my teacher salary but one ended up in the hospital with severe exhaustion the other found another job. It took several years before the one son could work without panic attacks. Don’t count on the bonuses.
He makes more money AND he doesn't have to slave away during evenings and weekends planning classes and correcting exams.
I'm trying to move away from the profession as well. I wanted to teach, not be a glorified babysitter for absurdly large classes of teenagers, with barely any ressources to help them as individuals.
And I certainly will not sacrifice my mental health and quality of life to basically be a band aid on the open wound that is our education system.
Yikes I just graduated with a bachelors in English Education this is not promising. I got into teaching because many have said that I'm great at it. I did my teaching training I loved the teaching part and working with the students but I hated all of the paper work and grading.
A teacher salary of $43 is $33k after .12-18% deductions i.e FICA, SSA, state, local, health, 401k, etc... You are down to $15 an hour....
...do I need to go to work at Wal Mart then?
yes
Not to discourage you to do your job application, yet have you seen the questionnaires??? Some are impossible to answer the questions. And no…that’s doesn’t mean that I am an ‘idiot’ and don’t know ENGLISH.
If I could just teach, I would enjoy it much more. But between the 100 other demands placed on me but I am still in charge of a class of students with autism, I am at my wits end.
Good for him
Walmart employees get pay garbage.
So you stepped into a management position while associates who've worked their longer were passed up, hope you are prepared to treat associates like shit for that bonus
If children were parented at home this might be a different story.
That was a no brainer, walmart manager > teaching
What position does he have at Walmart?
Probably got a management position for that salary because he gets bonuses
By the pay, he's an assistant store manager. Not hard to get to try this either. All you do is go through Walmart's manager training program.
The teachers on my district start at $63,700
How can you be a better teacher than the internet? If you can't answer, don't.
$55K. At WALMART. That...that makes NO SENSE. Walmart was just telling its staff to go on food stamps.
The worst part is not the kids but the other teachers....that's why people quit.
It’s true
Whats happens?...😂 The teachers be beefing?
@@richradtylr4 Yes!!
Not true. Its the students, parents, and administrators. Nobody beefs with other teachers. We all eating sh*t together….
@@soccerislife6108 my point exactly. You are most likely the teacher responsible for teachers quitting. It's very true. Teachers want to be principal pets
America once a melting pot is now just the pot (i.e., the toilet). Yes, I was a physics professor.
Go walmart!
I need a job in Walmart
Walmart here I come!
He would make $55,000 or more as a teacher of teaching wasn’t 10 months. It comes out to about the same. So now he makes more but works 2 extra months.
Also with Walmart you think about working during the holidays and extended hours.
The summer is not time off for teachers unless they are substitutes. Yeah, you have to work overtime and the bureaucracy of Walmart is a pain but your benefits and retirement are guaranteed, especially with a college degree it puts him in better shape to move up the Walmart ladder if he wanted to retrain into something like logistical management or accounting. Both of we which Walmart will help pay for through an educational benefit program. Most teachers wages and retirement plans have not kept up with inflation since 2006 in the U.S. 55,000 guaranteed before bonuses is league's better than a teacher's salary either elementary or middle school.
He gets bonuses which can be massive for management. Plus extra pay for those holiday and overtime hours.
@@katydid5088 No retirement or benefit is guaranteed in a private sector, especially without a union, and in most places teaching contracts are only for 9-10mo.
Teaching is only worth it in like 3 states.
In NYC with 4yr experience with only a bachelor's he'd be at ~65/70k with a masters and the best benefits and retirement in the country with free health insurance.
The same teacher would be making less after 20yrs in Florida.
I have done both jobs. I would almost agree BUT here's the thing. Teachers work when they get off too. Grading, e-mails, meetings, and lesson planning, etc. It's actually hard to honestly say which job is tougher though. Teacher's summers are messed with but you still get at least solid 2 months off. Manager's bonuses are VERY GOOD at Walmart too. It's a tough call. My conclusion is both jobs SUCK!
That's not exactly how it works. Teachers work more hours a week than an average person. More advanced teachers work about 60 hours a week. Those who have been teaching less than ten years, usually work about 70-100 hours a week. Thats 2,880 hours in 36 week as opposed to 2,000 hours over 50 weeks.
We should pay teachers more and politicians less
Walmart workers also don’t have to deal with trash kids and their entitled parents that get food stamps
He’ll work more hours though.
Let me explain one thing, in many jobs, employees work long hours then get back home and rest , the job is behind them until next day.
In teaching, whatever you do at school is like 30% of the workload , 70% follows you home: lesson planning alone takes about 3 to 4 hours, then there's the grading (having 4 classes which makes a total of 156 students) it takes 3 hours to finish grading tests and homeworks and even longer when its reading and correcting essays , there's report cards and counting students grades in the subject you teach , there's other administrative papers to fill, there are meeting /seminars/ parents conferences, etc and theres answering email from school and parents , and there's preparing mmore tests /quizzes etc
All of that is done after school , I'll let you imagine when I go to sleep and in which state , I'll also let you guess if I have a social life left after this
that chain tho😆
It makes a statement. That statement is Jesus died for our sins, was buried and rose again from the dead so all that believe on Him will have eternal life in Heaven.
Wal mart dumb when I went to my local Wal mart and was trying to get a watch fixed Manger ignored me for over 30 mins dispirite the fact I asked over and over again and Lowes hardware did same when I asked about getting blades for my mower to one day at my local Lowes a woman who was in a wheelchair actually helped she was so nice and kind
Starting pay in teaching in Texas is 55k where I live and it goes up from there I think....I know tennis so I could get paid an extra 10k coaching after school so idk if Walmart is for me....
You do you, bro! The teachers around my area never work a 2nd job any time and have their summer's off...which is fine. If they are working during the summer, they do it because they "can" and not because they "have to". I think there's more to the story here...perhaps he didn't like the teaching aspect that much, which is also fine. If he likes working at Walmart better...so what...good for him!
I bet you don't know any teachers personally, and that this is based on what you THINK the teachers in your area are doing. My mother was an educator for 30 years, I was a teacher for 20 years, and my son has just passed his 10 year mark, and we ALL worked in the summer at staff development, taking classes for certification, taught summer school, went to college for advanced degrees (my son has his doctorate). And a LOT of the time I also worked on the weekends cleaning doctor's offices. My son works for Dominos delivering pizza. I think you're way off the mark.
Only a couple states pay teachers very well with fantastic benefits. Then you have places like Florida where you'll make 44k for eight years and then get a thousand dollar raise lol
@@Masturbation65 Now Florida signed a law where people can carry guns without a permit. Nice way to be safe. More guns, everywhere you go. lol
@@jaydel3 what does that have to do with anything
Can you do something
Where are you at?? The teachers in PA make bank. I know bc it’s public knowledge
Just googled it. Average teacher pay in PA is between $47,000-68,000. This is about the same as every other state. If teachers were getting paid what they did back in the 90s (if you add in inflation), they should be getting paid around $70,000-$79,000
This is not the official good morning America CZcams channel where is robin robert’s at the end?
Nope don’t ever become a teacher.
Private sector pays better and schools can't or won't compete with that.
Sonali
He was making $4,410.00 per working month as a teacher (8 months worth of work). He traded that to make $4,230 dollars per week for base salary and working 12 months out of the year. So, he is full of shot to think he wasn’t making enough money as a teacher. Also, was that $4,300 take home pay or including tax… so… this is assuming that is his gross pay and not net.
I'm happy he made the move. The amount of money teachers get paid vs the amount of work they put in does not align. I'm sure his quality of life as improved. Good for him!
... So you also know how much the bonuses are from Walmart?
He probably has better health benefits, 401k match, etc.
@@konye618 not worth the managerial hours of working overtime every week for 12 months vs 8 months out of the year. And as a manager, you don’t get paid for overtime. Additionally , as a teacher, you gradually make more teacher and eventually become tenure where you cannot be fired no matter how sh*tty you’re at your job. You’re retirement salary is also something like the average pay of your last 4-5 years of teaching. Teachers are unionized, so they have great retirement plans. Basically, making more than a minimum wages working working over time all year.
@@HelenKerins I disagree. Like I clearly stated, for 8 months of work and 4 months of vacation time, that’s a VERY decent salary.
Heck no. Teaching is DRAINING . Not worth the couple extra dollars.