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To: Rambi who wrote (19578)	3/31/1998 7:18:00 PM
From: Janice Shell	Respond to of 108807

They may not make six figures, but they have tenure and they don't work anywhere close to the kind of hours a corporate executive does. HAH! Taht's what you think till you DO it. I have friends who're still teaching 4/4 and are in addition expected to do research. No effing WAY can you manage this with a crummy salary and no other rewards. So you teach a total of maybe fifteen hours a week. Have you any idea how much preparation time is involved? Okay, the first time I saw my name in print, the first time I was interviewed (they do that stuff much more for the arts in Italy than in the States) I thought it was cool. But it don't pay the rent. My friend Alice has the best academic job of anyone I know. She didn't get it (and it was entry level) till she was 43. Five years later she makes $42,000 a year. At Bryn Mawr. This sucks. Bigtime. And of course she still doesn't have tenure, so who knows, she may be out on her ass in a year or two, and with taht much teaching experience she'll be unemployable. You have NO IDEA...