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[quote=Anonymous]The sad part is that there are so few teaching jobs for people with PhDs now. My husband has a history PhD and I have one in a social sciences field. We are both employable outside academia but there are many people who deeply want to teach and are passionate about their area of specialty, but can't find jobs. Universities used to have mandatory retirement for tenured faculty but no longer; now you can stay in your job for life until you are doddering and senile. Many of senior tenured professors at major universities haven't published anything in DECADES. So the $50k plus tuition per year we will all pay for our kids if they go to private colleges will cover the costs of many unproductive tenured faculty and the workhorse grad students and adjunct faculty who barely make minimum wage. It's a totally absurd system. And anyone who believes history is useless is incredibly poorly educated herself.[/quote]
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