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Aug 5, 2019
3:51:58pm
TheWanderer Playmaker
If I was unmarried and had no children, I'd go back to teaching at a university
When I started out on the PhD track, I was very set on "teaching" at an R1 university. I found essentially all the things you listed above to be true. The lifestyle is pretty nice if you have tenure. It is very demanding if you do not have tenure.

I had a colleague who taught for a while. He had a PhD from Georgia Tech. He told me that his colleagues who went into "industry" were making 6-figure salaries and working <50 hours per week. He made about $75k/year and easily worked 50-60 hours a week in the publish or perish windmill. He really began to doubt if he had made the best decision.
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