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0 pointspclmulqdq1y ago0 comments

At many schools, advising is a professorial responsibility. Professors have a hard job, but they have a job that is very powerful and prestigious and can be incredibly lucrative (thanks to consulting gigs, patents, etc.).

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analog311y ago

Indeed, a large portion of a professor's duties are administrative.

heylook1y ago

...subsidized housing, normalized sabbaticals, teaching a course that uses the textbook you yourself wrote...

mnky9800n1y ago

I’m happy to accept a job where my housing is subsidized. What university is this?

ykonstant1y ago

I recall that universities in extremely expensive places like UCLA, Stanford etc subsidize housing and/or provide specially priced housing for staff and faculty. Not to say they are cheap, they are just tolerable given the salaries, which is more than you can say with regular market pricing.

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