Re:Compensation in 2019 – new grad tech offers
by tidepod12 on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @06:40PM
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I get your point, but teachers hardly "enjoy their relaxed and stable lifestyle". Professorships at universities may be different, but elementary/middle/high school teachers often work long, long hours, suffer from burnout, make low money (low as in ~$30-40k/year), and more recently, there is a trend that a lot of them are ending up in therapy to cope with the teaching conditions.
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Re:Compensation in 2019 – new grad tech offers
by froindt on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @06:47PM
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The path to tenure is publish or perish. I don't know specific hour commitments, but at an R1 university, you're looking at 4-7 years of long hours with a risk that you won't get tenure. And unless you bring in BIG money or work in a super HCOL area, you probably won't ever make 200k/year.
Re:Compensation in 2019 – new grad tech offers
by mattkrause on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @08:10PM
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4-7 for the PhD alone, plus a few more years as a postdoc, plus the run-up to tenure (another 4-5 years).
None of these are particularly stable or relaxing.