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Originally Posted by omaraz
I'm not sure what college you went to but it must've been pathetic. The majority of university professors are professors because they've done significant work in their professional field and they've published a great deal. The point of becoming a university professor is so you can enjoy research, writing and teaching and don't have to deal with the B.S. that goes along with working a "real world" job. So the issue isn't that professors can't cut it in the "real world" most of us don't want to get up and work the same routine everyday. Being a professor is a great gig, you work nine months, typically make more than a you would if you used your degree outside of a university setting and you get to travel in the summer or you can opt to pick up an additional teaching contract during the summer.
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I wouldn't rate my college as pathetic, but I would say that a lot of my professors, especially those in fields like history, foreign language, and science really would not have been able to cut it. Other areas may have been different. I may have been generalizing a bit too much, but with the professors I had in those areas they would not have held a job anywhere else.
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