To Teach or Not To Teach. This Is The Question.

Yesterday in my teachers union newsletter they had a page comparing college contingent teacher salaries to that of someone working at Walmart. Here are the stats. To work at Walmart you do not have to have a high school degree. To work at a college or university you must have a Master's or PhD. Walmart $9.13 per hour. Higher education pays $7.78 after all the work put into a class is done. On average there are 3 applicants for each Walmart job opening. For a faculty position there are usually 87 applicants per opening. Hmm.