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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The public looks down on professors?  [/quote]

+1  I am a professor.  I did not know that the "public" looked down on me.  Most people are very interested in talking to me when they find out that I am a scholar.  [/quote]

Do you live in DC? If so you are in a nerd bubble, doesn't count. I used to work for universities there but have since moved....people are not as impressed everywhere.

Do you read comments on articles about college costs?  90% of the time there are rants all about how faculty "only" teach two classes a year, don't work summers, and are grossly overpaid.  Now, I know this not to be true, but again, as I said, I am a university fundraiser and I hear this crap all the time.  Alumni want to know why their university is so much more expensive than it was when they were students, and they assume faculty salaries are to blame. I refute this argument constantly, because I know that is not true.  And that most faculty work hard.  But some are just assholes, and they do not care to hide it. My argument is that the bad apples poison the bunch because their attitude permeates everything they do and people know they have a superiority complex and a disdain for students and teaching when it is student tuition, after all, that pays the lion's share of the cost of their salaries and benefits, as they do mine.  I never forget who I really work for. [/quote]

So you're angry that you have to do your job - which is to refute untruths about the rising cost of higher education? Sounds like it's time for you to change jobs. [/quote]

No, I just loathe the ungrateful assholes amongst the faculty that I have to work with.  Who are ALWAYS unhappy, feel entitled to large donations (as if donors care that they just think their work is worthy and are pissed when they have to justify a request), who only talk about what they're not getting, how their research isn't being supported, how they are angry they have to teach a full course load, blah blah blah...

I work long hours with minimal staff to support over two dozen departments.  I travel 1-2 times a month, attend a ton of evening and weekend events.  I don't complain because it is the job I signed up for -I simply offer that to show that I too worked hard.  And I'm also not getting rich.  I put lipstick on the proverbial pig when they offend donors by complaining about teaching in front of them.  Lucky for me, the good outnumber the bad and I can choose not to work with the bad ones unless I uncover a donor with interest in their specific area of expertise.  I love my job most days, but on days like today I just want to throat punch the pompous energy vampires on the faculty who do nothing but shine like children ad nauseum.[/quote]

Where do you work, that alum donations go straight to certain profs? In the real world, profs have to apply for grants.[/quote]

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