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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are so many colleges, law schools, etc. in small college towns with excellent cost of living.  My DH is a law professor and we live in one of these.  We can afford to live how we want to live -- private school, international trips, sabbaticals abroad, etc.  I can afford a housecleaner if I wanted  but I prefer to clean my own house and mow my own grass.  Then I can use that money to travel.  We specifically chose this place over Georgetown because I felt I'd be stuck working in biglaw forever to give our kids the same opporutnities in DC.   No regrets!  The prof friends who stayed in big cities are the only ones who complain about compensation ([b]adjuncting is a different story....people do that because they want to have the resume line, not to make money.  They'd make more as a barista[/b][u]). [/quote]

There are MANY MANY adjuncts who are stuck there because they want to work in their field and can't get a more stable position. [b]It's a shame to put so many people on an academic track and then deny them the opportunity to make a living at it[/b].
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Listen to yourself, no one is denying anyone anything. I[b]t was THEIR choice to go into academic track[/b], no one forced them into it. As with everyone else picking out a trade to practice, they picked out what they wanted to do, and must accept what the market determines as the value of their contribution. No one owes them anything. [/quote]

this is partly true. yes it was their choice, but young people might not be aware of what that choice really means, and also, circumstances can change for the worse during the training. even at this topic, where people are supposedly informed, someone stated that professors make 300k without acknowledging the odds of getting such a position. very few people are aware of the realities of the academic market, and a vast majority of them are those who already have phds and have failed to land a good position. very few undergrads or their parents and even professors understand what the market is like.

when i entered phd program, it was still possible to go straight to TT after getting a phd. a decade later, it takes two or more postdocs to be competitive.

if you don't see the wast that is the academic system you are an idiot. the fact of the matter is that top schools could staff most of their departments with people who would [i]pay to work[/i]. that's right, if you advertised harvard professorship that only has zero salary but where you need to pay, say, 50k a year to teach, you will still get many dozens of applicants for each position.[/quote]

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