Why the hell did you come here, you should have stayed in Somalia, we don't need your kind.
Aaaaw...an anonymous Swede that got his feelings hurt, it won't please you to know I'm 100% Scandinavian, born and raised, white too (as if it made any difference).
Interesting. In Australia teaching is the opposite. The substitutes would effectively make some $100k a year if they were able to teach every school day. They get paid almost double the salaried teacher but naturally there's no guarantee for work, only a guarantee that they wouldn't get work for 3 months in the year.
That said our standard teachers are woefully underpaid, mind you also quite under-educated.
I was in fact planning to move to Australia before I moved to Sweden, I moved to Sweden because they have cheap houses I could pay for in cash so I didn't have do put myself into debt for the rest of my life. But now that you mention it, Australia might be next - Australia is however a bit of a challenge to get a Visa/Green Card for. Even for a Scandinavian as myself, even pretty well educated.
If you haven't noticed, slashdot is a perfect example of a bunch of nerds seething with anger over the stupidest things possible.
You want to know what I HAVE noticed?
There is an old saying that says, treat people like you want them to treat you. This also goes for most Slashdotters I've ever read in here, we have a moderation system for a reason, it is to sift out the intelligent conversation from the lesser, and it usually works a treat.
Nerds can get angry just like a regular person of course, but my experience with nerds is that they have brain and pretty much use it, which means they usually down spew out a lot of mindless drivel, but pretty much like their code - seriously think things over before they talk. That's nerds in my world.
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