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One of my high school friends got his PhD in chemistry, did the post-doc and adjunct world for a few years, stopped that miserable life and went to law school. After that he moved to Houston and has done very well for himself since then. But he was 20 years younger than her when he saw the light (so to speak).
These days being an adjunct is a tough life. Especially if you are in the humanities. But the universities keep pushing out students with graduate degrees in those subjects and little, if any, prospects for real jobs in those fields. Except adjuncting. A vicious cycle.
Unfortunately, for most of us, academia doesn't pay enough.
I had a friend who joined the Navy about 10 years ago. There were quite a few recruits who were former college professors. They got bumped down to part time positions, couldn't pay the bills like that, so went to the Navy instead.
A dateline episode showed that a fair share the call girls and escorts work in academia... getting their masters, or actually on that job too. They love the studies, but it just isn't sufficient in paying bills.
Last but not least, you figure out in school that 90% of the grunt work is done by underpaid, low level lecturers. When you see their salaries, it's shocking how some of the higher ups make so much $$, but don't really produce anything on the classroom front (some of them are real dicks TBH), nor the research front (nothing published, and although it's biased, I hear from classmates who are in those fields that there's at best decent stuff produced from some of those departments). Very similar to the corporate world.
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Originally Posted by West Phx Native
Learn how to be a football coach, the schools always seem to have plenty of money for coaches.
you'll get the shaft there eventually, as schools will want football coaches to win more fair share of games than not.
A dateline episode showed that a fair share the call girls and escorts work in academia... getting their masters, or actually on that job too. They love the studies, but it just isn't sufficient in paying bills.
Oh, please! That "profession" is rife with abuse of the women. Sounds like dateline hype.
Considering how much colleges and universities are raking in these days they should be able to pay more than slave wages for the adjust professors.
In reading this thread I had the same thought. The tuition cost continually rises for students, many not able to afford to go to college. Yet the professors and adjuncts are paid poorly and the administration is living high off the hog. Some professors are from foreign countries and make learning with them very difficult, yet they continue to hire them. Not sure why they do that.
My last child graduated college in 1993 and at that time it cost $44K a year. When I read the price of a college education now, I am shocked. That student isn't getting any better education that I received a long time ago, when tuition was $1,000/year. I recently read the cost of books for a student was about $1,200/year. That knocked me over too...with the digital age, that's ludicrous.
Considering how much colleges and universities are raking in these days they should be able to pay more than slave wages for the adjust professors.
In NYS the teachers are unionized and pay is based on collective bargaining.
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