Thity-five years ago my older ( by a year ) brother has been teaching for a couple of years and was complaining about the pay . I was married at the time and in the Army . I pointed out to him that he was still living at home with my parents , he worked eight months of the year , got three months off during the summer and another month's worth of holidays , didn't do a damned thing during these months off but lay around the house , my Mom still cooked for him and did his laundry and he had a hell of a lot of nerve complaining .
A year later he informed me that he was going off on his own . I asked what he was going to do . He said ; "I'm joining the Navy ." I said ; "Great ... Now you'll have the Navy providing your housing , food and laundry facilities ." He did enlist , went through OCS and got himself assigned to Public Affairs which put him in an office and as far from any sort of combat as possible . He retired as a Commander and is now back to teaching in a cushy private school setting raking it in from two different sources , There's more than one way to work the system and he knows them all . As far as I'm concerned people like my brother and the Oshkosh teachers are a perfect waste of skin !