Re: [Phys-l] Glass's "The Fate of Public Education in America"; an Alternate View

[Bernard Cleyet <bernardcleyet@redshift.com>]

How about the lowly support staff?  I was offered 20% more w/o references (just believed my position as a lab. mgr. w/ a PhD.) as an entry engineer in Si Valley. ca 1989)

Likely fortunately I didn't take it, as just before one of the early bubbles bursts.

bc


On 2010, Jun 16, , at 05:57, curtis osterhoudt wrote:

>  They certainly do, compared to, say, industry or (some) National Labs. Where I work (a National Lab, though arguably one of the most overpaid ones), *master's students* make more than many State University tenure-track professors; post-docs usually make more than full physics professors; beginning "Scientist"s make more than 10+ year tenured profs. 
>
>   I intend to quit soon, and attempt to find a teaching/research position at a college or university. I'll be hard-pressed to find one that will offer me 2/3 of what I currently make, and for an arguably much more important job.