The story lists £70k as the salary for a full professor. I worked in the UK as an assistant professor for 7 years, having to re-apply for my job every year. F

The story lists £70k as the salary for a full professor. I worked in the UK as an assistant professor for 7 years, having to re-apply for my job every year. Finally I admitted that per hour worked burger-flippers were being paid more than me. I left, got a job in IT support in an accountancy firm. Within 5 years I was the lead developer, because everyone else in the IT department was dumb or lazy or both. Per hour I was earning 1000% more than as a teacher. The truth is that US and UK societies do not really respect education - school is fundamentally a child-minding service, university is a rite of passage. School teachers have more industrial strength than university teachers, because if the schools close the lack of child-minding causes far more problems.