>>> A very stressful part of faculty life was knowing that my annual compensation was about to take a nose dive if I don't get another grant. >>> ... What do y

>>> A very stressful part of faculty life was knowing that my annual compensation was about to take a nose dive if I don't get another grant. >>> ... What do you do if you're swimming in funding then? You can buy out of teaching. You effectively pay for the cost of an adjunct to take your teaching load. Indeed, people think that getting tenure means you can live on easy street, but a tenured prof with no funding is living a tough life. They can lose their research space and department-contributed equipment funding (if in a laboratory science, these can be significant), and travel money, plus get "stuck" with a heavy teaching load. At the same time, a prof who does want to focus their career on teaching pays a price for doing so.