Money Magazine has the details on salary and job growth for archaeologists and historians (HT: Explorator). Based on salary and job prospects though, a college professor is the second best job in America. Average pay is $81k and expected job growth over the next 10 years is 31%. 75% of college profs make more than $61k. I guess that tells me where I rank. It also indicates that I chose a decent profession, just not…
The job is rated according in these categories:
Stress: B / Flexibility: A / Creativity: A / Difficulty: C
Back to the above. I honestly don’t know a single college/university/grad school/seminary where I would rather teach. Anywhere in the world.
You have a great position, Todd, and I can attest to it’s uniqueness from my own experience. You can teach the past as what happened, supported by an authoritative source, not denying controversy among scholars – that’s what I call history. Most “historians” teach theory (so much of it quite plainly postmodern) or the history of history. I thought I wanted to be a history professor, but I can’t stand what they have done to the subject and cannot bear the thought of spending one more semester with it, let alone the rest of my life! I will take the much smaller paycheck and teach high school instead!
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Todd wrote, “I honestly don’t know a single college/university/grad school/seminary where I would rather teach. Anywhere in the world.”
Hmmm…your flattering words look like an attempt to keep your April Fools Day hoax from really happening. :-)
that’s fascinating. If I had known, I would’ve hit you up to buy the poor student a Magnum bar.
Well Todd, it seems that you aren’t alone in your appreciation for where you work as Master’s College and Master’s Seminary have both ranked 2nd (higher education 101-225 employees and up to 100 employees respectively)in The 2006 Best Christian Places to Work in the US survey.
You can see all the “winners” listed here.