I teach machining in Scandinavia.
Lathe and mill, both manual and CNC. ISO programming, CAD drawing, etc. The studens are have 32,5 hours of school (including breaks), and I rarely give them homework. I have, in theory, 4,5 hours of preparations per week, but I don't use it.
Students are happy. 4 gift baskets from 9 classes in the four years I've worked there.
Less. And it barely feels like work.
You guys work 40 hours per week?!
But if the bus going fast enough...
That's better anyway.
Shields are up, but guard is down...
Thank you, that's really nice of you to say!
If I’m ever in a relationship again
I could learn from that optimism.
Easy...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._45_(Haydn)
Haydn's patron Nikolaus I, Prince Esterházy was resident, together with all his musicians and retinue, at his favorite summer palace at Eszterháza in rural Hungary. The stay there had been longer than expected, and most of the musicians had been forced to leave their wives back at home in Eisenstadt, about a day's journey away. Longing to return, the musicians appealed to their Kapellmeister for help. The diplomatic Haydn, instead of making a direct appeal, put his request into the music of the symphony: during the final adagio each musician stops playing, snuffs out the candle on his music stand, and leaves in turn, so that at the end, there are just two muted violins left (played by Haydn himself and his concertmaster, Luigi Tomasini). Esterházy seems to have understood the message: the court returned to Eisenstadt the day following the performance.
Idiocracy already did it.
You never hear dog owners getting asked that question.