--- In [email protected], Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > authfriend wrote: > > > > The biggest problem I see with the free option > > is that would be much more difficult for a teacher > > who has family responsibilities and therefore a > > lot less free time. Or if they take a job that > > gives them enough free time to teach as well as > > tend to their families, they're likely to be paid > > less than they need for their family's support. > > Oh no, keep in mind that a lot of the people who went on > TTCs were very bright and many already had careers or went > on to ones that paid quite well. In a lot of businesses > its not the hours you put in but what gets done that is > important in the higher positions. In these positions you > get paid a salary and not by the hour. So if I were to get > something that might take someone else a week to do in > three days then I would have two days to do what I want > if that included teaching. Those salary levels are > usually 100K+ too. Plenty to take care of a family.
Exactly. The folks I taught for free with in the Rama trip paid attention to his career advice, so they were making 100-300K per year, and because they were consultants, had some degree of control over their time. I saw the same thing in a couple of Buddhist orgs in which the teachers taught for free. They had scanned the job market and made an assessment of what type of career would allow them both the time and the money to fit in their teaching activities. And then they trained for those jobs and got them. If someone has made a career choice that limits their time to perform selfless service that is meaningful to them, or that limits their financial ability to do so, then it seems to me that they've made a lifestyle choice as well as a career choice.
