Prospects for future science professor?

pharmakeus01
Tue, 14 Sep 2010 19:10:18 +0000

As a future humanities professor aspirant, I say go with the flow. If you want to be a professor just because you want to have a decent salary or life style, do something else. Your research will not matter anything to the majority of the society, and majority of the people outside your field will not understand what the heck you have been doing.

The job market is pretty bleak. A professorate is often reserved for the most tenacious of all cockroaches that live with graduate students in their cramped apartments on a below minimum, say, wage.