Rants from an gamer

[Kasz216]

vlad321 said:

Kasz216 said:

Oh, and possibly a reinforcement of the proffessor thing... one of my professors gave up the job of being a CEO of a multimillion dollar company HE  founded. 

Just so he could teach.

Teaching doesn't need to be valued with money, because of how appealing a job it is to those who do it.  If very capable people are willing to do it for the amount of money they are being paid... what's the motivator to raise their pay?

I actually know a whole lot of professors who opened businesses to make more money, they still research but they are making too now. Granted this is the CS field so there are plenty of things that can be done in the field.

I am also curious about how much money he made from his CEO. Probably the best teacher I ever had was in history, and he used to be a very successful criminal lawyer. His reason for teaching? "I love teaching, and considering I have enough money to live my enitre life there is no reason to do it." I never asked him this, but I doubt he would have picked up teaching over the law given how much monetary stress comes with teaching. It's very easy to say "yeah i'mdoing this because I like it" once you have the money, much harder when you don't.

Well, his hobby was race car driving... and he owned his own race car.  From the sound of it... a lot. 

He didn't need the money to teach that's for sure.

As for monetary stress... I mean, it's not like proffessors are poor.

 

Even Liberal arts proffessors tend to start at 50-60 grand.  Excluding benefits.  You could do a lot worse.