I'm glad I passed on law school (although I do regret not going pol/sci sometimes).
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I'm glad I passed on law school (although I do regret not going pol/sci sometimes).
Yeah, I really enjoy polisci too and have considered a Ph. D. program, but it seems so daunting. Depending on how my accounting class goes this semester I may go talk to my favorite polisci professor for his thoughts on it. Getting into a program, funding myself for 4-6 years, and taking such a low paying job after so much schooling is kind of a deterent though (but 3-4 months off every year, good benefits, and plenty of travel opportunities make me want to do it). Alas, we shall see in time.
As far as I know, if you land a full-time job as a professor at a University, your salary will be well above 100k...although this does hinge on whether or not you get a full-time job. They usually don't hand those out too often, seeing as how they can pay three part-timers half the wage for twice the work.
It really depends on where you manage to land a job. If you manage to get a job at a top college you will proably make 100k plus, but at many smaller university and alot of state schools that aren't at the top a typical full time assistant professor tenure track position will pay anywhere from $45,000-$75,000 depending on your specialization, published research, and grades. It's rather unfourtunate that we pay our educators with many years of schooling about as much as we pay an entry level accountant with a B.S.
A good website with average salaries by university is: http://chronicle.com/stats/aaup/
That's what pushed me to graphics instead of pol/sci, despite my interest. One of my friends recently graduated from pol/sci, and needless to say I pick up the bill when we go out. Of course, as a refined gentleman I would anyways, but that's an aside...
I have a huge amount of respect for what she does, and I'm glad to know I played more than a small role in her choice of vocation, though.
Hmmm...that's interesting. I know a Community College Dean, and she showed me the salary scales for that school. A PHD started with 74k and within 8 years was at 100k. I assumed that CCs would be on the lower end of the spectrum. But again, this is in California, so wages do have to be higher. Either way, an educator is never going to make as much as an attorney because they don't put in the same amount of hours. If you think about it, a professor works for about 30 weeks out of a year, and even then, not all of those weeks are 40 hours or more. Aside from finals and midterms, the professor probably only has to put in about 20 hours during normal semester weeks. If you were to divide the salary by hours worked, you will see that professors don't have it too bad. Who gets underpaid in the educational system is K-12 teachers. Those poor souls work very long hours during the regular year, and work for at least 42 weeks during the year. Plus all the grief they get from parents doesn't help. OK, let's go back to how the OP should try to finish a year or semester of law school, just so he can see how it is.