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My wife tutors at a college, and she said the same thing about the professors there. She said that most of them looked well past retirement age, and some could
by dx87 7y ago
My wife tutors at a college, and she said the same thing about the professors there. She said that most of them looked well past retirement age, and some could barely stand up on their own or talk loud enough for a class to hear them. Meanwhile, the younger people who want to teach are stuck being adjunct professors with no job stability or benefits, or working as tutors grading papers and picking up the slack for teachers that refuse to retire.
- commandlinefan 7y ago> well past retirement age I'll be working well past retirement age, not necessarily because I won't want to retire, but because there's no way I'll be able to afford it.
- imtringued 7y agoMost pension systems assume x years of payments. Just because people are getting older doesn't change the fact that the money won't last. Therefore the retirement age gets adjusted upward until it is average life expectancy - x years of retirement.
- watwut 7y agoWhat would they gain by retiring, exactly?
- commandlinefan 7y agoAnd what would the students gain? I mean, I get that younger people want to become professors, but the students are better off being taught by somebody who’s been teaching and researching the field in question as long as possible.
- Thiez 7y agoIt is said that science advances one funeral at a time. As a student I would prefer someone with a medium amount of teaching and research experience.