Teachers working 2 jobs to supplement income: Special Ed & Bouncer

[Liberal_in_LA]

Teachers across Las Vegas Valley turning to second jobs to supplement paychecks


After teaching special education students at Legacy High School on Thursdays, Chad Bandiera stayed to coach football or track, depending on the season.

He drove to his Paradise home and maybe had time for a nap before putting on a black suit and going to work.

Bandiera is a bouncer at Tao Nightclub at T he Venetian from Thursday through Saturday.

When his shift ended at about 5 a.m. Fridays, he drove home, took a shower, changed into casual clothes and headed back to Legacy, 150 W. Deer Springs Way in North Las Vegas, to teach another day.

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He enjoys both jobs but looks forward to a day when he can just be a teacher.

"It, by far, affects me ridiculously," he said. "I literally get depressed on Thursday afternoons knowing what I'll have to do.

http://www.lvrj.com/view/teachers-across-las-vegas-valley-turning-to-second-jobs-to-supplement-paychecks-125398008.html

[Zoeisright]

1. There's reality, vs the fantasy "Teachers are paid so much for 9 months of work" bullshit.

When are people going to wake up and realize that hating fellow working class citizens is just making them schmucks for the Koch criminals?

[dana_b]

2. poor guy

working to death just to get by. It's ridiculous how little respect teachers get. They are responsible for one of the most important jobs in the world and they are treated like this.

[MADem]

3. What kind of salaries do Las Vegas schools pay? Anyone know?

The snark answer, in this guy's case, is "Clearly not enough," but I'm curious as to the pay scale out that way.

[izquierdista]

5. About half

Of what a parking attendant, poker dealer, or other highly tipped position can make at a Strip hotel.

[LiberalEsto]

4. That is nothing new

I've always known teachers who worked second jobs in order to survive on their lousy salaries.
One of my closest friends is a teacher in New Jersey, which is notorious for low teacher salaries. To survive, she taught Jazzercize until her body gave out, and still sells candles and other stuff at home sales parties. Another friend sold cosmetics, and now works selling cosmetics at a major department store to supplement her small retirement pension, Another sold Shaklee products for many years to make ends meet.

Teacher salaries have been ridiculously low for decades. One reason their unions negotiated for decent benefits and won them was to compensate for the low salaries. Most teachers were women, back in the 1960s and 1970s, and their wages were viewed as being supplementary to their husbands' salaries.

I experienced the same idiocy at one of my first newspaper jobs, when I found out that the male reporters were making $150 a week, while the women, including me, were making $125. Believe me, $25 a week was a lot of money in 1976. The publisher felt that the women were working for "pin money" or some such crap, while the men were the "real" wage earners. I kicked up a huge fuss at my last editorial board meeting, and left to take a job at a Newspaper Guild union paper with a non-discriminatory salary guide. The other female reporters at the old paper were irate upon hearing my revelations, and forced them to institute a salary guide that required equal pay for equal work.

[Liberal_in_LA]

9. The gender differential on salaries was wide spread - I worked at a store where

it was known that the male manager paid males a higher hourly wage. He felt males needed the money more. sheesh

[kick-ass-bob]

6. This is nothing new. I'm 38, and my 7th grade science teacher

had to have a second job at a grocery store, which he tried to hide from his students. This was also on top of his duties as the school's soccer coach (which also gives you a bit more money).

So what's that - 25 years ago? Teachers have always been shitted on, and its about time it stopped. :mad:

[xmas74]

7. My high school history teacher and I worked

together one summer as carhops at Sonic. I was still a high school student at the time. He didn't do too bad there-most of his students gave him decent tips. Of course, it still had to be humiliating.

He worked at Sonic in the summer, was adjunct at a local community college, a high school teacher and assistant coach, and also worked at McDonalds on the weekends year round.

[Liberal_in_LA]

10. wow...that's a lot of jobs. I count 5 jobs.

[xmas74]

12. For many years.

He worked at Sonic in the summer, was a coach in season, worked at McDonalds on the weekends. Later he picked up one class as an adjunct. (He taught geography and it was a blast! It was a Wednesday night class.)

At least he paid off his and his wife's student loans. He was a young teacher when we worked at Sonic together(I'd say no more than 25) and I remember then they had just had a baby. It was cheaper for them to have him work a few part time jobs than it was for her to work full time and pay for day care. After they paid off a few bills they bought a small house and she opened a day care in their home.

He's on my Facebook page and according to his page he now only works three jobs-teacher, coach, and adjunct-but was considering a fourth to help pay tuition for his oldest to start college.

[Liberal_in_LA]

14. "only works three jobs" lol

:-)

[Tatiana]

8. Most of the teachers I know have second jobs.

My child's Math teacher coaches basketball and works part-time at Walgreens. One of my co-workers works in the evenings and weekends at Kohl's. Another friend works at Bath & Body Works in the mall. Many sell Avon or Mary Kay. These people are not living the life of luxury either. They drive 10+ year old vehicles and live modestly. The younger teachers are trying to make enough to survive and pay back their student loans. The older people are paying off second mortgages or other debt accured due to medical bills and/or supporting older children who can't find a job.

[w8liftinglady]

13. my partner said if he didn't have his military retirement,he'd be working a second job,too

[Fire1]

11. Teachers have been doing this for eons. n/t

[DefenseLawyer]

15. Uniquely American isn't it?

I mean, that's fantastic.

[Snoutport]

16. I work two jobs.

No choice. To teach special ed here you have to have a masters. to have a masters you have to have big student loan bills.

We have to take classes to keep our license as well. Not cheap when you have a masters.

[RubyDuby in GA]

17. As the mommy of a 5 yr old with autism who is going into Spec Ed kindergarten this year,

I can't thank you and your fellow spec ed teachers enough for going the extra mile. You all are worth more than your weight in gold to me and all the other parents like me. :hug: