Job specific misconceptions which persist

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An acknowledgement to @whatusernameshallihavenow for totally ripping about their thread for general misconceptions that persist. I've tried linking to the thread but I can't. Sorry.

I wondered which job specific myths there were (and hopefully thus avoiding brexit or covid).

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In my past life supply-teaching: supply teachers get paid more than 'proper' teachers. Prevalent view around here. I never, never understood it (or was working for the wrong agencies).

On being Prime Minister (of the UK):

1. Its an appropriate job to pursue because you 'think you would be good at it'...

Or

1. Because you want to be World King

@shoreditchmum2112 agreed. I've spoke for teaching jobs thinking more carefully about whether I have the required skills than I think Johnson did for PM, and whilst I loved teaching, I don't think the two jobs are comparable.

*Applied, not spoke. How does my phone get spoke from that? I shouldn't post at 3.00am :)

That university lecturers do nothing in vacations. Same for teachers in schools.

That teachers get paid for the holidays. The absolute venom aimed at teachers just because people presume we get 12 weeks paid time off is unreal. It brings out such nastiness in people.

@RosieLemonade

That teachers get paid for the holidays. The absolute venom aimed at teachers just because people presume we get 12 weeks paid time off is unreal. It brings out such nastiness in people.

So teachers do not get paid during the holidays then ?

That social workers get a bonus/have a target for removing children

That if you get a visit by social care they want to remove your children

That it’s easy to make a living as a writer.

That museums will take your fur coat or sewing machine or any other old thing you have that you don’t know what to do with.

That it is a bad thing that lots of stuff in museum collections is in store not on display in a gallery. Believe me, most of what’s in the archaeology store would not make a riveting display.

Teachers do get paid for the holidays. You can argue that some is unpaid leave and their salaries are just annualised if you like but it amounts to the same thing. They don’t have to g9 to work and they get paid.

Teachers I assume get paid in the holidays because whatever they are paid is spread over 12 months. Does that mean if you see a teaching post advertised that you need to pro-rata it?

Physio’s will give you a massage.

That landscape architects are gardeners

@akerman

That university lecturers do nothing in vacations. Same for teachers in schools.

And that for French film makers, university lecturers declaim deep musings about Woolf or De Laclos to halls full of rapt students, really beautifully lit and dressed, without any teaching-related banalities such as PowerPoint, phones going off, and essay deadline reminders.

Or seeing a student in the front row with a brand-new copy of the novel with a bookmark on p 1 of the introduction, even though she’s had the reading list since she signed up for the module in June.

Work for a charity: that you don't get paid/incredulity that you get paid.

That all teachers get 12 weeks holiday... Nope.

If you work in retail it's a dead end job and you have zero skills.

That teaching primary is just colouring in and far inferior to secondary teaching.
No, we still have a curriculum to cover, as much planning and database work as you. We are held just as accountable for our results.
We still work under the threat of OFSTED and those of us that don't make the grade still subject to capability proceeding.
I know because I was trained and worked in secondary before I switched.

@tablecat any secondary teacher that thinks that really is clueless. I've done both, and I'd struggle in primary because of the breath of the curriculum. Impossible to fit it all in without the rest of the common to both paperwork.

Teacher salaries are based on working a certain number of days each year, then split into 12 even payments.

Schools are not allowed to direct time in the holidays, although people can volunteer to work.

If the government wanted to make school terms longer, then theoretically they would have to pay teachers more.

That you have to be good at maths to be an accountant.

You really don’t!

Teachers have term time only type contracts so paid for 39 weeks but that's spread over 12 months so they get a payment each month.

It means that the starting salary of £25,714 is actually equivalent to approx. £39.5k. I never understand why the Unions don't push for payment for more days per year given most teachers are working extra and it's such a sore point?

@chilver I've never seen a landscape architect advertise, but plenty of landscape gardeners. Are they a different thing then as presumably that's where the confusion stems from?

That as a midwife all I do is cuddle babies and eat cake...

Health and safety advisors walk round ticking boxes and trying to get you in to trouble for nosensical things.

That architects are wealthy, plot twist, we aren’t.