Good points and informative response. You're definitely an outlier, though. > Professors are the worst and are not well paid at all Not from the professors I

Good points and informative response. You're definitely an outlier, though. > Professors are the worst and are not well paid at all Not from the professors I know (engineering fields). That information is also public in many cases. They're not making your 300k-600k, but it's extremely stable, a position of power, prestigious because of the requirements, and it gets more prestigious with time. I suspect with software engineering there is age discrimination against older people. Older doctors are wise and more experienced, older engineers are outdated and retiring soon?