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Except for the useless meetings, is this that different from academia?

• whatever1 6y ago
  Being a professor is more like being a business owner, than an employee. You are the master of your own, you get to have people working on your ideas, but granted you have to submit a lot of proposals to achieve so. Definitely though you don’t have anybody over your neck dictating you what you should be doing day-in, day-out.
  • JamesBarney 6y ago
    Isn't that just tenured professors, a small portion of academia, which doesn't include adjunct professors, teacher assistants, or research assistants?
    • throwawaygh 6y ago
      > tenured professors It includes all tenure-track professors. > which doesn't include adjunct professors Yeah, those are called "temp teachers". Don't get distracted by the fact that they teach courses at a university instead of a high school. The job is functionally the same. > teacher assistants, research assistants That's not a job. That's a thing a student can do to receive funding for their studies. It's up to the student to make sure that they use the time they invest in their phd program wisely. Good professors will help.