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[quote=Anonymous]Because though the vast majority of you are good scholars and dedicated teachers, those among you who are bitter and hate their jobs allow the massive chips on their shoulders to show.  And your students know.  And they tell their parents.  Even if you feel you are underpaid, you still make more than at least 50% of the country - http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2012/tables/12s0696.pdf.  A good number of you make much more than than the median salary - http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/04/07/faculty-salaries-are-22-report-sees-many-financial-issues-facing-professors#sthash.iPb5PcAa.dpbs.  If you are tenured you cannot be removed from your position for all but the worst of offenses.  You have job security beyond what anyone else could dream of.  You have flexibility in your schedules that other people can only dream of, especially those working hourly jobs who can be fired at the drop of a hat with no recourse.  This is the profession you chose, and I cannot for the life of me imagine why you thought it would be any different than it is.  You are free to leave at any time and pursue another line of work.  No one is forcing you continue being miserable.

You taint the entire profession with your bitterness and misery and your obvious disdain for teaching students.  The vast majority of professors care about their students - but you don't get special credit for that since teaching is a part of the job.  This isn't the 1950's anymore - public funding of higher ed is down, hiring of tenured faculty is down, costs are rising and public pressure is mounting to reverse that trend and prove value.  Please, if you are thinking of becoming a professor, talk to a faculty member under the age of 45 to ask them what it is really like NOW - not in the "good old days."  Ask yourself why you want the job.  If you just want to research, get a research job.  But don't take a job that requires teaching and research and then spend all of your time bitching about students and how you don't get enough money for your research.  It just makes you look like a pompous, entitled asshole.   
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