Reply to Moving to a place where you're not as financially secure

Forum Index » Off-Topic

Reply to "Moving to a place where you're not as financially secure"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]It can depend on why you are moving.

College professors do this often. My BFF from college is a prof and currently teaching at a school where both the students and the surrounding community are very well off. Her husband is self-employed and she makes a standard salary for a humanities prof. I think there are some challenges, but because there are many other professors in the same boat, the school does offer some help with housing to facilitate living in a HCOL area on a lower salary, and the community itself respects academia and the professors at the university, I don't think it's intolerable.

The main challenge seems to be managing her own feelings. It can be hard to be surrounded by people who all have expensive, large, perfectly appointed homes and designer everything if that is not something you can afford. It's not even jealousy, exactly, as just a feeling of inadequacy and a heightened awareness that you are of another status. Friend loves her job so that helps, but long term I think would like to move to a job in a college down with more of a middle class culture. But for a few years? Not a problem and actually kind of an interesting cultural study if you have that attitude -- a way to see how the other half lives for a bit before returning to an environment where you are closer to the mean.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics