Jeremy Stangroom

"The hours in academe are long and merciless, and the pay is ridiculously low—by any standard" ... http://buff.ly/1kGckmF 

.@PhilosophyMttrs "and the pay is ridiculously low—by any standard". If he thinks that, he's no clue abt how large chunks of the world live.

@PhilosophyExp @PhilosophyMttrs I was a union rep for uni admin: listening to academics moaning about their terrible pay always grated.

@SteveCooke @PhilosophyExp really sad, nay obscene, that union rep finds listening to troubles of the people he represents to be "grating"

@PhilosophyMttrs I represented admin staff, not academics: I have since moved into academia, & I know well what early career academia's like

@SteveCooke if you teach 8 courses per year and have no dependants, you can barely survive; of course, you can't teach 8 courses at the ...