Comments on: Opportunity Cost http://pseudosanity.com/2008/09/03/opportunity-cost/ Life (or lack thereof) of a graduate student Fri, 15 Oct 2010 01:15:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: deeply frustated MA student http://pseudosanity.com/2008/09/03/opportunity-cost/comment-page-1/#comment-7722 deeply frustated MA student Fri, 15 Oct 2010 01:15:43 +0000 http://pseudosanity.com/?p=427#comment-7722 I'm posting to an old post, but This is exactly my conundrum. I think I'd enjoy teaching and researching. the problem is I can't resolve myself to another 4-8 years of minimal earnings after i finish my MA. I want to own a house and have kids etc. Did I mention I didn't go straight to grad school? I also want to fucking go to fucking bed before fucking one fucking am after having spent 8-15 hours doing work with minimal procrastination FOR POVERTY PAY. It is utterly infuriating. So far as I can gather today's undergrads are taught by people who were either so wealthy that they had no concern over money, so stunted they were afraid of the "real world" or so cloistered they don't realize that they hold their precious tenure position out of luck, considering that one tenured position opens up for what, every three to eight adjunct jobs? Insane. I can't justify abusing myself that long anymore. I'd rather live an intellectually unfulfilled life with middle-class wages than an intellectually challenging one that demands I accept substandard pay and 65-hour workweeks for some weird-ass Dead Poet's Society version of reality. I’m posting to an old post, but

This is exactly my conundrum. I think I’d enjoy teaching and researching. the problem is I can’t resolve myself to another 4-8 years of minimal earnings after i finish my MA. I want to own a house and have kids etc. Did I mention I didn’t go straight to grad school? I also want to fucking go to fucking bed before fucking one fucking am after having spent 8-15 hours doing work with minimal procrastination FOR POVERTY PAY. It is utterly infuriating. So far as I can gather today’s undergrads are taught by people who were either so wealthy that they had no concern over money, so stunted they were afraid of the “real world” or so cloistered they don’t realize that they hold their precious tenure position out of luck, considering that one tenured position opens up for what, every three to eight adjunct jobs? Insane. I can’t justify abusing myself that long anymore. I’d rather live an intellectually unfulfilled life with middle-class wages than an intellectually challenging one that demands I accept substandard pay and 65-hour workweeks for some weird-ass Dead Poet’s Society version of reality.

]]> By: Breena Ronan http://pseudosanity.com/2008/09/03/opportunity-cost/comment-page-1/#comment-1515 Breena Ronan Sun, 21 Sep 2008 03:05:26 +0000 http://pseudosanity.com/?p=427#comment-1515 No question about it, a PhD makes little sense if you can get a professional job without it. The finances make little sense. No question about it, a PhD makes little sense if you can get a professional job without it. The finances make little sense.

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