Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!hub.toronto.edu!thomson Newsgroups: comp.arch From: thomson@hub.toronto.edu (Brian Thomson) Subject: Re: tenure track faculty position Message-ID: <1991Jun21.101640.7478@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> Keywords: humor, big joke Organization: University of Toronto References: <91168.172101FC137501@ysub.ysu.edu> <1991Jun20.040659.833@gtephx.UUCP> Date: 21 Jun 91 14:16:40 GMT Lines: 27 In article greg@ogre.cica.indiana.edu (Gregory TRAVIS) writes: >In <1991Jun20.040659.833@gtephx.UUCP> robertsw@gtephx.UUCP (Wild Rider) writes: > >>In article <91168.172101FC137501@ysub.ysu.edu> FC137501@ysub.ysu.edu >>(Paul M. Mullins) writes: >>> >>>The available position is at the rank of Assistant Professor. Salary >>>range is (up to) $39,000 for a nine-month academic appointment. >> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > >> shouldn't this be posted to rec.humor or submitted to >> rec.humor.funny? i mean, seriously... a ph.d. in c.s. >> working for "(up to) $39,000"? well, it sure made _me_ laugh! > >Please note that the job posted was for a nine-month appointment. >$39,000 divided by nine and multiplied by twelve is $52,000. $13K a year >is worth it to some people who like to travel and/or do things other >than work for a living virtually every day of the year. Hey, I'm in another country, and even *I* know that American colleges expect their faculty to attract research funds to make up the other three months of salary. At most of these places, if you try taking 3 month holidays every summer your job will probably be advertised on the net again in a very short time. -- Brian Thomson, CSRI Univ. of Toronto utcsri!uthub!thomson, thomson@hub.toronto.edu