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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Hey, Prof! I have a question.

If you were to do things over again, with today's climate and opportunities, would you pursue the same career? I'm considering going into teaching, but it seems damn near impossible to make a living doing it nowadays. A friend of mine teaches highschool and he makes more than the professors at my school (granted, I go to SNHU online). Any advice?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Different prof here, but a few thoughts:

academia is not as shiny as it sometimes seems, but it can be great. You can have a lot of freedom to do what you like, work when you like, how you like... do meaningful things. Not always, but the chance is there
it's not to get rich. Selling expensive textbooks is rookie level exploitation compared to what people do in the industry, and most of the profit doesn't even go to the prof

The book to read for this is "the professor is in". The author takes quite a cynical perspective about academia, but in many ways it's true. Worth a read (and probably you can get it for cheap second hand)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I will check that book out, thanks!

I'm not concerned with getting rich, I just want to be able to afford to support myself, and potentially a kid one day (though, that's increasingly unlikely). I'm a full time caregiver for my mom, she's disabled, and bedridden. So working from home is pretty important. I don't have any kind of, like, ivory tower aspirations or anything. I don't imagine I'm going to change the world, or be some oft-quoted academic. Lol. I'd love to teach Anthropology and go on digs some day, but I'm getting an English (creative writing) degree, and I'd love to just have a relatively stable income teach some kids about story structure one day.