Being a teacher comes with endless rewards.
It does not, however, come with a particularly high salary.
Jenna Hall, a second grade teacher at Renaissance Academy in Lehi, Utah works part time as a barista at Starbucks to make ends meet.
Hall recently posted a video to her TikTok page, where she goes by the handle @miss_hall_, documenting what her shifts at Starbucks are typically like.
The under-one-minute video has received over 207 thousand views and resulted in a passionate debate in the comment section.
The video captured Hall, at an increased speed, doing everything from taking orders to making drinks, to doing dishes and mopping up the floors.
Hall expressed the best thing about working at Starbucks was the free food, as she captured herself happily eating a bagel.
In one of the more poignant moments of the video, Hall could be seen rounding up all the money in the tip jar.
Though Hall said she never quite knows how much she'll take home in tips at the end of each shift.
"No, I don't know how much money we got in tips."
"That's divided amongst everyone based off of how many hours you work."
Hall ended the video by sharing what she felt was the biggest perk of working at Starbucks, which was bringing home all unsold food at the end of her shift.
She revealed in the overlay her students also reap the benefits of her second job.
"I save the cake pops to use as class rewards."
For her part, Hall didn't appear to show any shame or resentment at having to work a second job.
She even declared in the video's caption:
"Working at Starbucks definitely has its perks".
Many viewers, however, were horrified at the idea teachers have to work a second job.
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There were also a number of fellow teachers who revealed they also had to work a second job, and others who said they ended up seeking another profession due to the low wages.
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A recent study by the National Education Association showed roughly 20 percent of school teachers in America work a second job and that second job makes up about nine percent of their overall income.
The same study showed teachers are about three times more likely than other members of the US workforce to have a second job.
