$600/week for a middle school/high school science teacher in Tampa

[ryoder]

I was offered a job at a local private school teaching computer classes and running the computer lab etc back when I was still in college. I think it paid like 25k and I said no thanks. I didn't see a career path in it. How much value could I provide year over year in that capacity? I wanted to make a good salary so I could support a family and education just wouldn't cut it.

My Sensei in karate was also pretty much poor. He devoted his life to studying and teaching Japanese karate and said that they were asked to take a vow of poverty. He was a very humble and wise man and spent many hours at night teaching us college kids karate. Some of those kids drove new BMWs their parents paid for while he drove an old minivan but he was happy and never complained.

To each his own.