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Old Posted Feb 13, 2022, 1:29 AM
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Originally Posted by MolsonExport View Post
Who makes more? Plumbers or professors? The gap is really quite narrow. Meanwhile the professor (I am one) had to spend upwards of a dozen years pursing undergraduate, master's and then PhD degrees (and often, a stint or three doing a post-doc), so those potential income-earning years (the prime of one's life) are financially, very lean. There are fewer and fewer tenure-track positions in Academia (the only positions that pay decent salaries) and many in Academia now work by cobbling together potentially unrenewable contracts, often from multiple institutions. Plus, when you finally graduate, you have a wall of student debt yet you are in your thirties, when it is time to marry, start a family, etc.
Forget about tenure. There are fewer and fewer full time positions. Which means (in the US) no health benefits. Or steady paycheck. Higher education is getting greedy; not exactly hurting for money but cheapening out on salaries and opting for adjunct professors rather than full time. I knew several people who left the profession because of this.
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