Originally Posted By: HerrStig
Originally Posted By: Virtus_Probi
Originally Posted By: HerrStig
Originally Posted By: grampi
You can blame this on our entire education system, which has become one giant left wing indoctrination...
Taught by "professors" who were passed over for private sector jobs.
Are you crazy?
Do you know what a great gig being a tenured professor at a major university is?
I've worked in the private sector for 30 years and would love to have the security that a professor in my field would have with that much experience.
You're delusional. If you want to spend your professional life trying to make tenure in the PC world of college teaching, the "security" is apparently worth a lot to you. Seems to me you belong there bobbing and nodding every time a new PC pronouncement is issued. Most of the sharper professors I know run side businesses and devote a lot of time to them, because unless you're Granny Warren, the phony indian, you get don't 350K teaching ONE course. You're apparently under the impression that they ALL sit with their feet on the desk smoking pipes while grad assistants do the work. Those that CAN, do, those that can't......you know the rest.
Ironically, you just proved my point...professors can and do run side businesses that can take tremendous amounts of time and still be secure in their academic positions. If a business fails, they still have their secure teaching position. If a business takes off, they have the option to devote themselves to it full time or stay on at the university with an honorific title and few responsibilities because their name now brings extra glamour.
In my industry, you start being very suspect as you approach 50 and very few are kept around past 60 unless they are senior management. I have zero debt and plentiful savings and will be OK no matter what, but it's still an ugly feeling to be in a situation like that.