Financing construction projects - Enough equity?

I find it totally interesting how especially male fellow humans always mix this up: Those who earn well are not allowed to complain about working conditions – and as a civil servant even less so. As if you could compensate the daily strain (which, by the way, is often not perceptible from the outside, but that is another topic) with money. That is such a wrong approach!

Unfortunately, it is the case (and this is my perception based on the teachers I know) that there is excessive complaining about this. And yes, when you earn well or very well, you tend to overlook things more than if you had to muster the same nerves for less money. For a job that pays 10,000,- I would rather stand in traffic for an hour than for a job that only pays 5,000,-. Unless you turn your hobby into a profession, money or work-life balance is motivation number one when choosing a career.

And that not everything that glitters is gold in working life should be clear to everyone. And since I myself have spent decades in school, I was also able to observe that teachers’ motivation strongly decreases over the years. If you allow that in the private sector, you quickly become irrelevant.

I grant everyone the right to complain and grumble, but especially for tenured teachers and their reasons, I would wish they had to do some other job for a week that is paid just as well.

My favorite reason for complaining, which always comes from my brother-in-law, is that as a teacher you always have to pay more for vacations because you always have to take vacation during the peak season. At that point, I really have no words left....

Ok. You didn’t understand it, your rush hour example also shows that. Nothing can be done about it. Although, I’ll give it a try:

I like the idea of swapping. Here in the area, math and science (except biology) often have to be staffed with lateral entrants. When someone from a management consultancy switches to school for math/physics, they are done after one year and leave. Or: They stay and become cynics, one of those demotivated people you (rightfully, by the way) lament.

The problem is not the amount of work itself, but the teachers’ knowledge that they have to produce poor results despite the best intentions – because the system no longer allows anything else. Constantly acting against inner knowledge is a form of negative stress that causes one to a) burn out or b) become a cynic, which children really don’t deserve. And then there are also c) teachers who don’t notice anything and think everything is fine and has to be that way. We’ve always done it this way. They don’t burn out and from an external perspective are also the ones who perform the most. They do, if you understand a school as an authority and not as an educational institution.

So: It has nothing to do with work-life balance and also not with vacation during peak season, even if you know someone who fits this cliché. It is not about small-talk complaining but about the fundamental grievance of having to fulfill the main task – educating young people – worse than one could and considers right. It drives one crazy and is a strain. As a countermeasure, people then try in their free time in clubs, tutoring, and associations to patch up what the professional environment cannot fix. Within the system, initiative can quickly become legally unpleasant.

Many teachers start out as idealists. Name me the salary that preserves idealism under such conditions? There isn’t one. Just the idea that an educational institution has to function according to the rules of the free market is already crazy: It has led us to the personnel and material minimal setups that are now part of the problem. All very “lean”...

Please give concrete examples regarding "..having to produce bad results even with the best intentions - because the system no longer allows it." I like to learn.

I also have a great example here:

I am currently trying to register my son for daycare. The city has created an online portal for this due to contact restrictions, which was released today for registrations. I don’t need to explain further that daycare spots are hard to get and you have to register or reserve under enormous time pressure...

The portal always returns an error message that is incomprehensible. That’s why I notified the daycare management and the city itself by email, since no one is reachable by phone. Five minutes ago, I just received the information that all responsible persons are on vacation and will contact me on Tuesday. Try to allow something like that in the private sector... For me as a taxpayer, this is simply incomprehensible and it is exactly these kinds of situations that create resentment against civil servants!

please name concrete examples...

For what exactly? 1) Here Ruhr area, location type 5. Among other things, I coordinate the cooperation between schools and the sports club. School type: comprehensive school. Specifically, we have (when not Corona) created spaces in the sports halls for supervised homework. For students "with needs," often those who do not have their own room at home but have multiple siblings. Supervision: teachers, in their free time. To get children/youth into sports, I received "AG times" (extracurricular group times) from the school, with which I obtained hall times from the city. Condition: It must not be a school AG because otherwise hours would have to be released and paid for. Supervising teachers do this unpaid in their free time. If something happens, it was not a work accident but leisure activity. 2) Especially physics is a shortage subject; with the teachers qualified for upper secondary level, the market is empty once the grammar schools have been served. So people come from the private sector, especially physicists from management consultancies, because they never really wanted to do this in the first place. They come from the private sector and want to take a more relaxed job with professionally low requirements for a physics diploma holder. Two-thirds of them fail because it’s not as low-performing as they thought and they suddenly have to work even more than before. Or they stay and become bitter. Seen it myself, met them myself, talked with them myself. With more than one. NONE of them would ever write what is to be read about teachers in this thread. They would have said it beforehand...

What exactly for?

so that I can read about what teachers can complain about.

1) but this doesn't really have anything to do with everyday school life, rather it concerns an additional offer from the school, comparable to a youth football coach who does it voluntarily in his free time.

2) You are describing a stereotype here, or simply put a lazy pig.

I sit in the office 8-10 hours a day, in a company with more than 500 employees, because management forbids home office even though it would be possible. To put it bluntly, management is playing with employees' health because of this. Among other things, I am responsible for projects in Spain and the USA and receive calls outside my working hours, sometimes at 8:00 pm when the Spaniards wake up from their siesta. So it is not compensated. Nevertheless, I have to react quickly here and make decisions involving millions of euros and for which I am liable with my signature for penalty payments, etc. So you will understand that I read your "problems" with a smile. Still, I do the job because I enjoy it and get good money for it. I wouldn’t want to do the effort and responsibility for less money.