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[quote=Anonymous]Some universities have slots they call research professor, kind of like a glorified postdoc, as opposed to professors who have teaching duties.  Research professors are NOT even tenure track but they can last an entire career and pay more than a postdoc but never as much as an assistant professor no matter how long you work.  You report to a tenured professor and mostly rely on that professor's ability to obtain grants.  If the professor ends up winning a Nobel prize or something, being their research professor can be a GREAT job.  Some schools have research professors that are in charge of running major instrumentation.  Some schools have groups of professors that run programs or institutes and the program or institute hires research professors to provide samples or in my friend's case to be in charge of the turf green house.

"Wait, she ended up a research professor (tenured?) in her field? Sure she doesn't earn as much as I do, but shit, she got to do her thing, and she gets to do it every day."
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