As an academic, I can say we make shit money, but the rest is pretty accurate. It’s kind of amazing actually, but people/organizations just send you books and journals and various crap and it piles up and then suddenly you end up with the Fire Marshall saying its a fire hazard and then the front desk girl for the…

Aw, come on, if you are at Uc Berkeley, by the time you’ve been there 35 years (so, about 70), you’ll break that $100,000 mark. Bank!! And just a couple of decades at that wage (so by your 90th birthday) you’ll probably have saved enough to buy a house in the bay area!!,

4 months off? They get 4 months to research and work on their publications. Plus they have graduate students to advise, duties towards the university, conferences to organize/attend and grant applications to write. The real money comes only as a full professor, after you’ve spent years working evenings and weekends to…

Professors drive beaters because they are poor.

Weirdly, I DO have bedbugs (my second treatment is this week and hopefully by the end of this month I will not have bedbugs anymore) and this makes me feel a bit better about my life, too. Bedbugs are embarrasing, but they really can happen to anyone.

It appears there are some real misconceptions about academic wealth on this board.

No, of course not! But I often see comments around these parts suggesting that professors are extremely well off. They typically work way over a 40-hour week and don’t make nearly what they would in private industry, at least those in science and such. For instance, Professor Pa Vaffanculo was courted by oil companies…

My dad just retired from a tenured prof job at a small Catholic college, and he once went a 10 year stretch (as did every other professor) wit no raise whatsoever. Good thing my mother sees frugality as one of her morals.

Man, I wish that were true though! My husband’s a tenured professor at a major public university and we’re so far from rolling in it.

Tenured professors are comfortably middle class but hardly wealthy, at least not at public schools. I know quite a few professors who do not come from privileged backgrounds and just worked incredibly hard, including my husband, but you’re right, some do have that luck. As far as salary goes, they do not make nearly…

Yeah, but it’s $1.27 million and comes with free bed bugs and rats. Where else can you get that kind of deal, eh?

Professors making “bank?” For realz?

A roach. A leak. A lawsuit. And a banana peel. All this. And more. On the next. This. American Life.

Kinda low bar for the word remarkable.

I keep this one handy at all times for the same reason. (See also “Willem Dafoe/Willem Dafriend”).

They really don’t look like they’re ever bothered by anything. So above it all. Ha. Even chasing those tourists, that loping gait made it appeared bored with just the effort. Like his heart wasn’t in it, but he was doing it for the team anyway.

You’d probably do better with padded bike shorts.

Try all you want, Thinx, but whenever I think of period fashion, I think of fashion from a certain period.

Meanwhile, thousands of mannequins languish in unemployment lines.

Suffering is part of his aesthetic. At least he’s committed, being married to a Kardashian and all.