There might well be a reason why many, many people are desperate to be academics, seeing it as a vocation, whereas not so many people view working on a supermarket checkout in the same way.
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I've worked in academia, and also in nursing, care work and as a shop assistant. The academic life was by orders of magnitude the easiest and least stressful.https://twitter.com/NAChristakis/status/960491469772554241 …
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Pay people in retail more, people in academia less, I say. In fact, academics should probably give away some of their income to shop workers.
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Note also how many academics manage to tweet incessantly throughout their onerous working day, whereas that's not so common if you're working on a factory production line. Odd that.
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Yep. I've worked in academia, as a line cook, tree-cutter, a janitor, a bartender, at WalMart, in security, and served in the Army (among other things). Academia could be stressful, but was generally less so than those jobs. The exception I'd totally make would be for adjuncts
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I see what you are doing here. While it is not at all physical they teach and research. You are throwing dirt on a worthwile endeavor. Facist thing to do.
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I only have a BA but always suspected that tenure was a wonderful thing...
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