my girlfriend always dreamed of being an elementary school teacher. she loves teaching and helping young kids. however, imo elementary teachers dont make much money. we will have a difficult life because her dreams wont pay the bills. ive given up my dreams to persue software engineering to help us get more money, how do i persuade her to do the same?
Public school teachers get paid well - not as high as Tech but still 100k plus in the Bay area. This is public info please Google. She can start as a teacher then if she doesn't want to continue she can become a Project/Program Manager. IMHO she will have transferable skills.
$100k? Do you have a source for that?
@kales here is a source. Look at page 3 https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5684890-SSA-Alameda-Salary-Charts.html
omg set her free
If you gave up your dreams for the financial security of software engineering, is this exactly the sort of thing you made that sacrifice for?
Also in my opinion you should talk to her about this now, before you propose.
Good point, op acting as if they married
She needs someone to subsidize her dream. She picked you.
So what do you do ? Other than be ...
TC
I’m new. What’s TC stand for? Total compensation?
Yes
You don't. And you won't have a difficult life. Software engineer salary + teacher salary is pretty decent amount. There's more to life than money
Stupid. You are so stupid.