[lbo-talk] hard work

Miles Jackson cqmv at pdx.edu
Sun Feb 11 10:01:16 PST 2007


joanna wrote:


>
> But wait, I used to work in academia as an assist. prof and it was a
> 24/7 job.
>
> I was English, which is work intentsive because of teaching
> writing...but still.
>
> Joanna

Yeah, English profs tend to have a heavy workload, especially grading. Even so, it wasn't 24/7 during the semester breaks and summer, yes? All in all, working conditions are not that onerous for full-time, tenured faculty (don't get me started on the exploitation of part-time faculty; that's another story).

Miles



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