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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am a tenured prof in the humanities in the DC area, and I make close to $100K. The benefits are autonomy (in terms of research and how I spend my time outside of the classroom), excellent work environment, and of course, life-time employment. I also benefit from a college tuition exchange program and free tuition for my children at my university. Social benefits include being the only non-lawyer at many parties in DC :) . I pay for our family's health insurance, which isn't cheap, but still cheaper than my spouse's. Fortunately, DH is in a much more lucrative field, but less stable, so it works out. [/quote]

I have a tenured professor friend on the east coast. He confided in me that his pay wasn't very grand, something like $150k a year, but his wife is in finance and brings home major bank. He as a lot of opportunities to travel for conferences, board meetings, and etc. His social media page is filled with travel pictures all over the Americas and Europe. Every other week, he is having a 10 course meal with a nice bottle of wine somewhere exotic. He has more culture than all of my other friends combined. He is the smartest man I know from a raw intelligence point of view. He is also the smartest man I know from a life-enjoyment point of view. [/quote]

He is smart because he married rich.  [/quote]

this. I don't know what the PP thinks this guy's example shows beyond that anyone can have a passion job and still have a luxurious lifestyle if they marry rich.[/quote]

PP here. He will be traveling even if he didn't marry rich. His trips abroad are paid for by the school or whatever organization paid for him to be in attendance. Sure, if he wasn't married to an investment banker, he may have a smaller apartment in Jersey rather than a condo in Manhattan, but none of the stuff he shares on facebook shows off his personal wealth, which I know is substantial only in so far as I've known him all my life and we are quite close. What he has, money can't buy, as I can ably demonstrate if you happen to be the third person in the same room listening to our conversation. [/quote]

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