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I find it interesting that many of the IT/Engineering/Tech jobs have a high degree of connectivity to elementary/middle school teachers. So the high salaries are helping to balance out the crap salaries.


Hmm, or maybe to balance out the lack of pensions and retirement healthcare after the techies burn out :-)


Or maybe simply male-dominated field (social circle is mostly male) with female-domainted field (social circle is mostly female).


or the balance of empathy/emotional intelligence


Like the previous post stated, this is likely just because there are many nurses and elementary school teachers. There was no statement that the graph corrected for this.


Or the unpredictable late night hours in IT with the teacher hours that work around a child's own school year and daily schedule.


That's hilariously spot on for me. I'm a tech guy and my wife is a elementary teacher.


reminded how 20 years ago a school principal wife of an older guy in our IT department made sure that all unmarried/unattached guys from the department attended the Women's Day party (Russia) at her school :)




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