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When I get older and kids are out of house, there is a decent enough chance I'm going to try to teach an accounting class at a community college on the side.

 

Can I take your Creative Accounting course and learn how to ship all of my losses to a shell company off shore to make my parent company look better?

 

That class is Accounting 486 - How to be like Enron and eventually shut down a Big 5 accounting firm

 

The most enjoyable setting I ever taught at. No BS, just teaching.

 

200k is a small exaggeration, more like 185k. But getting there would be very doable for me. But yes, it’s a decision I would never make without being all in. I doubt I’ll get there but I’m not totally ruling it out.

 

I was going to do the same. Like you, it would have been super easy for me. Probably easier. But then I figured I would learn everything ever about computers and decided that I would lead google into the next phase of internet technology stuff. So I made up my mind I was going Yale technology school and then become a professor of the whole university because it is basically the simplest thing ever.
But then I decided not to, even though it was all way easy.

 

I got my degree in Mathematics and then realized that the only job available was teaching or actuarial work. So back to school and got an Associates in Computer Science and now do things I have always enjoyed doing.

 

Haha. You must have attended Auburn.

 

I graduated from Auburn with every degree they offer.
Took 7 months. Total breeze. Played football, offense and defense. I was going to start ahead of Cam Newton, but practice bored me and I was inventing Uber so my time was limited.

 

Wtf? Do some research before showing your ass. I’m not blowing smoke here at all and I’m not claiming to be some genius. I know a PhD program would be a huge challenge but I’ve seen plenty of professors at multiple programs and know what the path is.

 

Showed my ass, voted best ever. EASY! I was going to enter Mr. Universe based on my glutes alone, but I knew I would have won in a landslide so I just awarded it to myself and got back to defending my solution to Skolem's paradox to the idiots at Yale's Department of Smart Guys.

 

Who pissed in your Cheerios?

 

Pretty impressive that we have one of Trumps speech writers posting here.

Keep up the good work.

 

Sure, in a place where you’d need to make $400k to enjoy the cost of living in East Tennessee, I can see an easy path to the upper end of salaries at $200k.

But it isn’t going to be starting. It’s going to be after years of work, and a textbook.

He’s not talking about teaching a class, he’s talking about that being the entirety of the gig. Which means tenured and productive, at a research institute.

Which means grant writing, not teaching.

 

All fair.

Still not as stressful as tax season.

Fun Fact - highest paid professor at UT is an accounting professor.

 

I don’t need 400k, for starters. Second, it doesn’t take a bunch of years to hit that number.

 

How many people that you did a masters with went on to and through the doc program? One? Three? None?

How many pre or post docs did you interact with along the way? Five? Six?

And what percentage did they choose to give up that easy path, failed to claim that easy path, or succeeded in claiming that path?

And why?

 

Perhaps I should be more verbose in my posts, or perhaps they are being misunderstood or picked apart just to disagree with me. So let me clarify. Getting a PhD isn’t easy, particularly at the institutions that would allow for this path. I know that, though I believe I’d be capable of doing it. That being said, if you are willing and capable, once you do it, getting those positions is very doable.

Reasons people don’t pursue it:

-Every go getter thinks they will make partner (or even would want to). They mostly will not.
-PhD programs are long and not easy
-You will be poor while in a PhD program
-Very few are well suited for it, and of those that are, even fewer will give it a serious look.
-You have to accept much less control of where you will eventually live and work.
-We work a lot, and it’s a lot of effort to even attempt to get into a program.

There’s more but I think that’s a fine start.

 

Should have stolen a laptop.

 

Rick Reilly's column at the back of Sports Illustrateds made me want to get into sports writing. I read that back page religiously every week.