Scott, sorry for the late reply, I don't often read this part of the forum.
Your reply containing the words, (Now if anyone out there is willing to work for free let me know, because I could use the free help.
Ok no takers? ) is a bit sarcastic and could be interpreted as spoiling for a scrap.
Let me say this, Yes, I have worked for free for 28 years! As a teacher I got to work at 8am, worked through till 4:30pm with about a 15 min break at lunch. There's lots of planning and curriculum development that has to be done on a daily basis) Just enough time to wolf down some food before going on duty in the school yard. I took home 1.5 to 2 hrs marking every day, and between 2 and 4 hours worth of marking on weekends. Even on nights when I had personal things to do like camera club meetings, I would get home and sit down after 9pm to do the marking because my students deserved to get their results in a timely manner. I often had in excess of 200 students (7 blocks of 30 students) that churned out an amazing amount of work, much of which had to be marked by myself) . That works out to around 12 hrs a week, 48 hrs per month. That's 60 days per year of "free" work (3 months for most people) because I wanted to do my job better and my employer wasn't about to pay me for it. That doesn't account for the 1.5X overtime factor in most peoples contracts.
Just in case it comes up, no I didn't get 2 months "off" in the summer, I had to budget 10 to 15% of my salary and save it every month to have money to live on during July and august because there is no pay for most teachers then. Those that do have their salary decreased by that amount and repaid to them during those months.
No I didn't make an huge salary, Police, Nurses, garbage collectors and even pulp mill laborers made more than me during my entire career. I also had the problem of losing 5 years salary, and tuition and living expenses to go to university for 5 years, plus not getting up to my full salary for 10 years after I began teaching.
Also, just in case you might think teaching is a "cushy" job, I could relate situations involving parent teacher interviews, recalcitrant students, unbelievable demands by administrators and .
So, Yes, there are people who do "work for free" just for the job satisfaction of doing a better job, even when their employers wont pay them overtime to do it. Do you?
Stan