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In the United States, there are more than 3.7 million teachers today.
In the US, the average salary for preschool teachers is $17.53 an hour.
In Mexico, the average national salary for a primary school teacher is 11,379 Mexican pesos.
Currently, the new reality caused by the Covid-19 pandemic has left people with another way of living, where many have decided to leave jobs, relationships or even situations that made them happy. This is the case of a young teacher who commented on TikTok that he left this job to dedicate himself to working at a Walmart, since he earns 12,000 dollars more per year (about 240,000 Mexican pesos).
In these last two years the world of work has changed, which is why two great forces have emerged that are revolutionizing, such as automation and the pandemic. In this sense, an investigation carried out by the International Economic Forum (WEF) details that what is known as the “double alteration” of jobs is a concept that includes transformations in the short term due to the global economic crisis and those that are deeper and will be projected over time.
Likewise, a bank rate study carried out in 2021 indicated that 55 percent of adults are looking to change jobs in the next 12 months, while one Recent Resume Builder Survey revealed that 40 percent of workers age 54 and older have considered changing jobs because of new opportunities available.
For its part, data from the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that about 4.2 million people voluntarily left their jobs in October 2021, a figure that, although it marks a decrease from the previous month, continues a sequence of exceptionally high job resignation rates that has been called “The Great Renunciation”.
The story of the teacher and Walmart
A man went viral on TikTok after commenting on a video that left his I work as a teacher to dedicate myself to work at Walmart because in the retail store he earns better.
The 28-year-old Ohio man, identified as Seth Goshorn, posted a TikTok video earlier this month in which he said he was quitting his teaching job to go work at the American store.
“Leave teaching after 6 years to be a manager at Walmart and earn more without using my title”he wrote in the video, which shows him wearing one uniform from the brand and holding another.
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Let us remember that Walmart is one of the most important companies in the United States and Mexico, where According to an annual report registered in 2021 a workforce of approximately 231 thousand 259 workers in Mexico and Central America. This data represented a decrease of more than 7 thousand associates with respect to the figure registered in 2019.
The man also mentioned that even though he loves teaching, he changed jobs for one reason only: money.
“It was much better than I think people are used to and what people would expect,” said.
The subject explains that he had worked in education for five and a half years, first as a reading tutor and then as a second grade teacher, where the last year he earned $43,000 teaching in Stark County, Ohio.
Meanwhile, he said he will earn $55,000 a year before bonuses at a Walmart in Massillon, Ohio as supply coach two, including making sure delivery trucks are unloaded.
His job change sheds light on a notoriously bad part of the teaching profession: the pay.
In the United States, there are more than 3.7 million teachers and They record the average salary at the preschool level of 17.53 dollars an hour, which gives a total of 36,460 dollars in twelve months (about 720,000 Mexican pesos a year), according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). For its part, in Mexico, the average national salary of a primary school teacher is 11 thousand 379 Mexican pesos, being 136 thousand 548 pesos per year.
“Absolutely, I don’t want this to be that I’m just trying to discourage anyone from becoming a teacher. That is not the case. I just want my teacher friends to be paid properly.”
“Think how good our teachers could be if they could just focus on teaching and not have to work a second job on the weekends.”
“They didn’t choose to have to work a second job that comes along with that, and that’s what I would have loved to see go away,” said Seth Goshorn.
The recording records more than 60 thousand likes and various comments where the majority are from people complaining about the salary of teachers in the United States.
“I am in school to be a teacher. I’m starting to regret it, “says one of the comments.
“Earn more money. But now you don’t have those summer breaks, spring breaks, winter breaks. All major holidays free. Weekends off,” another comment reads.
“It is a lot of work to teach for little money. We really need to pay our teachers better,” he read in another comment.
“I left teaching for retail and I do twice as much,” says another Internet user.
As well as this testimony on TikTok, there are others, where they expose how they left a job, for which they prepared themselves at university, for another that has nothing to do with their studies, but that perhaps gives them greater personal satisfaction or economic remuneration. An example was Vivian Montoya, who also documented how she decided to leave her position as global manager at ABB, where she was in charge of caring for the firm’s reputation in more than 100 countries, to dedicate her time to creating content on social networks and training your own company.
In conclusion, people currently have new paths to guide their lives, as long as this fulfills them as a person and professionally.
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