Quote Originally Posted by noenaim View Post
I like most of teachers at my school have a Masters Degree and every 5 years I have to [[by law) go back to school to get more hours of education. If I don't go back to get more eduction I lose my teaching certificate and my job. Guess who pays for this schooling that I am required to do??
Can you name another job where such highly educated people have to beg for a 1 percent raise?
Please quit the crying. At least you have a job and don't have to move.

As a software engineer I would have loved a 1% raise this year. Instead, I had to settle for complete termination of my job, 6 months out of work, a 20% salary cut for the new job and a loss of half my holiday and vacation days. I had better pay and benefits 15 years ago. I also had to move out of state and am now trying to not go bankrupt supporting a house I cannot live in.