I started out teaching- Went to WMU to become a band director/music teacher- but schools kept cutting arts programs due to millage cuts and I left the profession in 1986. I make far more as a quality engineer in manufacturing

Starting Teacher pay in Michgan hasn't budged since I left college in 1983. In 1983 starting pay was about $15000-18000. Now it is the inflation equivalent of about $35000