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Forbes 2013 Career List Flamed By University Professors
An anonymous reader writes "The Forbes list of 'least stressful jobs' for 2013 is headlined by... university professors. This comes at a time in which the academic community has been featured on controversies about 100-hour week work journeys, doctors live on food stamps, tenured staff is laid off large science institutions, and the National Science Foundation suffers severe budget cuts, besides the well known (and sometimes publicized) politics of publish or perish. The Forbes reporter has received abundant feedback and published a shy, foot-note 'addendum'; however, the cited source, CareerCast (which does not map to any recognizable career journalist, but rather to a Sports writer), does not seem to have had the same luck. The comments of the Forbes reporter on the existence of a Summer break for graduates ('I am curious whether professors work that hard over the summer') are particularly noteworthy."
Here is the CareerCast report the article is based on, and a list of the "stress factors" they considered. The author of the Forbes article passed on a very detailed explanation of how tough a university professor's job can be.
Ahh, I understand your confusion there, your wife accidentally stumbled into the Philosophy department. It's a completely understandable mistake to make, the average university philosophy department is filled with senile, tenured professors and hipsters who spent more on their iPads then they did on toothpaste that semester. If you tried to talk to any one of them you'd be hard pressed to believe you _weren't_ in a retirement home.
Easy test to keep her from getting mixed up again; if she walks into the building and is immediately hit with the stench of patchouli, body-odour and hashish, she's probably wandered into the local college again. If on the other hand it's just the usual potpourri of soiled beds, Old Spice and death, then she's going to have a wonderful day at work!
hipsters who spent more on their iPads then they did on toothpaste that semester.
What the hell? You spend $600 on toothpaste per semester? As in $100 of toothpaste per month? And you find it strange other people don't?
One month's worth of toothpaste: $100
One month's worth of toothbrushes: $175
One month's water bill: $315
A smile bright enough to woo a female into a slashdotter's basement: Priceless
..is "drill press operator" a job all its own?
It's code for male porn star.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .