You know, as horrible as this sounds, I don't feel bad for this professor. Rather, I feel bad for the poor student whose education had to suffer because of a la

You know, as horrible as this sounds, I don't feel bad for this professor. Rather, I feel bad for the poor student whose education had to suffer because of a labour dispute. I strongly considered graduate school after I finished my undergrad, but the job prospects were absolutely horrible. It took me three conversations with trusted professors for me to realize that if I spent six or seven years of my life working on a PhD, my expected return was about $30k Canadian a year. Now, I would have loved to teach, but losing six years of earning power to earn an expected $30k a year struck me as a particularly poor investment. Heck, the expected annual return from applying at McDonalds exceeded that of getting a PhD...