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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe in Michigan it's possible to have a nice life as a professor, but it's harder here.  When I was living in My first "just out of college" apartment in Arlington my next door neighbors were two professors with two kids living in a shitty two bedroom.  It was not a fancy apartment.  My friends in the area who are currently professors either live in way far out suburbs and complain constantly about $$ or have family money to float them.

The "nice life" professor belongs in TV myth, along with the rich Brady bunch architect. [/quote]

You are all completely missing the point. Whether or not a professor has a nice life "by our standards," it clearly gave this kid something to aspire to.[/quote]

Being a tenured professor at a major university is great the same way it is great to be a[b] top 10 golfer or a Hollywood movie star[/b]. Only very few make it to the top and they are handsomely rewarded. The rest either work in academia for peanuts or abandon it and earn more money but feel a lot of their schooling was for nothing.

I would never tell my children to pursue this. Ever. [/quote]

You are seriously comparing being a university professor to being a Hollywood movie star? I think it's a *little* more difficult to become a major A list celebrity. LOL[/quote]

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