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Re:The defiance of an 'untouchable' New York subway worker by wmil on Monday March 26, 2018 @10:39AM (#16679208)
Financially it's smarter than being a post-doc or untenured lecturer.
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Re:The defiance of an 'untouchable' New York subway worker by cscurmudgeon on Monday March 26, 2018 @11:07AM (#16679440)
Any data to back that up? Really curious.
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Re:The defiance of an 'untouchable' New York subway worker by akgerber on Monday March 26, 2018 @11:53AM (#16679772)
Conductors average $62k/year: https://bizfluent.com/info-12099370-salary-new-york-city-tra...

It's a decent middle class job.

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Re:The defiance of an 'untouchable' New York subway worker by scythe on Monday March 26, 2018 @12:44PM (#16680229)
An physics postdoc should pull in 40-60k (mean 49k) without an NYC CoL so I'm not sure subway conductor is better. Adjunct salaries can be disgustingly low but that's mostly in the humanities AFAIK.
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Re:The defiance of an 'untouchable' New York subway worker by romwell on Monday March 26, 2018 @09:06PM (#16684259)
>40-60k

>Might

My friend got under $40K as a physics postdoc in TX, my partner got around $50K as a math tenure-track in midwest, and those are the lucky academics that could find these positions.

You can look up salaries at many public institutions. The trend is pretty sad.

Some people might get a lot of money by winning the lottery, doesn't mean it's a viable career choice.

Disclaimer: I jumped ship, and still might suffer a bit from the sour grapes syndrome - but not because the salaries in academia very any good.

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Re:The defiance of an 'untouchable' New York subway worker by bzliu94 on Monday March 26, 2018 @02:58PM (#16681482)
What is CoL?
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Re:The defiance of an 'untouchable' New York subway worker by lfxyz on Monday March 26, 2018 @03:36PM (#16681759)
Cost of Living, I imagine.
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Re:The defiance of an 'untouchable' New York subway worker by pinewurst on Monday March 26, 2018 @01:05PM (#16680471)
The benefits are really good too.
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Re:The defiance of an 'untouchable' New York subway worker by astrodust on Monday March 26, 2018 @11:45AM (#16679711)
Starvation wages are the norm in the academic world.
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Re:The defiance of an 'untouchable' New York subway worker by fnbr on Monday March 26, 2018 @11:48AM (#16679739)
Post-docs, and adjunct professors make O($30k), which is less than what a subway conductor makes, presumably.
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