{"id":266,"date":"2006-04-17T08:39:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-17T15:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/?p=266"},"modified":"2006-04-17T08:39:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-17T15:39:00","slug":"wanna-be-a-college-prof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/17\/wanna-be-a-college-prof\/","title":{"rendered":"Wanna Be a College Prof?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Money Magazine has the details on salary and job growth for <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/magazines\/moneymag\/bestjobs\/snapshots\/94.html\">archaeologists<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/magazines\/moneymag\/bestjobs\/snapshots\/201.html\">historians<\/a> (HT: <a href=\"http:\/\/s9.invisionfree.com\/Classics_Central\/index.php?showtopic=570\">Explorator<\/a>).   Based on salary and job prospects though, a <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/magazines\/moneymag\/bestjobs\/snapshots\/2.html\">college professor<\/a> 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&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The job is rated according in these categories:<br \/>\nStress: B     \/     Flexibility: A     \/     Creativity: A     \/     Difficulty: C<\/p>\n<p>Back to the above.  I honestly don&#8217;t know a single college\/university\/grad school\/seminary where I would rather teach.  Anywhere in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/17\/wanna-be-a-college-prof\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}