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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Major A list making 20 mil per movie yes. A lead in a HBO type series quite comparable to tenured professor at Harvard, Stanford etc.

It's very difficult and, unlike in sports where you know fairly quickly if you are gong to be a major star, it takes many years and you can still be unsure of yiu can make it big. There are people in their late thirties still trying to make it. Incredible waste. Avoid at all cost. [/quote]

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