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They're not workers in the traditional sense. What are other workers get degrees for their work?

• michaericalribo 7y ago
  If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, then for all intents and purposes, it is a duck. As a grad student, I taught 2 undergraduate courses a semester as the professor, the same load as a full faculty member—very much ‘workers in the traditional sense.’ Moreover, grad students are also writing a dissertation and doing research for their advisors and taking a full course load, and apparently in CA, also working a side job to pay their bills.
  • jdm2212 7y ago
    Grad students teaching courses is, as with interns, a hybrid role that is both paid employment and professional training. And, as with interns, the pay is much lower than an experienced industry veteran's salary [1] because part of the compensation comes in the form of experience, connections and resume-building. [1] There are two exceptions to the rule that interns don't get paid much: professional services and engineering. Both fields use internships almost exclusively as a recruiting tool and don't claim to provide any educational value.