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A teacher with tenure may still have a job but it may be possible that instead of teaching in valley at a nearby all white school, your next assignment may be in South Central. That could be as near as getting laid off as one can get without actually geting fired.
A HS teacher friend told his principal that he was gone if any kid pointed a gun at him. Well, the pricipal got the gun point experience before my friend. His HS had a two cell lockup on campus.
Great work if you can get it.
Just out of college teachers get the bad jobs and the experienced teachers get out of Dodge/Ft Apache as fast as possible.

One reason universities can get away with it is that they pay better than universities in India, Russia or China. It’s a global faculty job market and due to barriers such as the green card and teacher certification, it is separate from the K-12 teacher job market.

As a union card-carrying high school teacher, I rather enjoy watching PhDs fish through my rubbish for food and old newspapers. This I do from my mansion in Lincoln, which overlooks several acres of whitetrash-free conservation land.

Can the high school teachers bring THEIR dogs to work? Are sexual liasons between them not grounds for disciplinary action?

I mean yeah, I guess you can make a case that being denied the right to have a dog with you at work is a bad thing, but it doesn’t work as a point of contrast unless the high school teachers live under a less restrictive rule. (I for one have never worked in an environment that allowed dogs except as helpers for the blind, and have never felt particularly oppressed by this…and while I’ve occasionally regretted the full, complete, absolute, unconditional, and beyond-question ban on sexual relationships with cow-orkers at every workplace I’ve ever had or am ever likely to have, it’s still not a valid comparison if the high school teachers have a similar rule.)

I can’t wait for Philip to get a new job again, so I can hear how awful it is to be an amateur pilot, flying around the world with your dog and flirting with women half your age. Sure, it *sounds* pretty seductive now, but I would have said the same about programming or college teaching just a couple of years ago. It won’t be long before the BigCos realize you can retire an Indian for a tenth of the price…

You are right on the money when you say that many PhD are desperate for jobs. College professors are cheap. The profession is obviously very attractive for many intelligent and educated people. That happens in many fields. It is possible to hire a fully competent airline pilot for very little.

People go into the military knowing that soldiers die
People go into teaching knowing the pay sucks
People go into teaching college because they think it’s all peaches and cream, summers off, good pay, tenure is beautiful, etc. However, as they’re doing the grad work, if they don’t come to realize that ‘tenure is only good if you get it’ – then that’s their own damn fault. From two semesters of jobs with titles beginning with ‘graduate… ‘ I knew that much. And I knew I didn’t want to do it anymore!

There are very few careers that people go into that they don’t realize that it is a whole lot of hard work and not as much pay as they might want. Your best bet is to not get yourself into debt, take what you can, improve yourself, save for retirement and keep trying to move up.

And if people hate that their boss won’t let them bring their dog to work, perhaps they should become their own boss. Of course, then they can’t move up – they’re at the top of the heap – not always a great place.

First jobs suck, and most of the ones after do, too. A lot of the bright kids tried to route around the damage by going to graduate school. I’m suspicious of this: I think a lot of people will just end up in deep debt that forces them to take worse jobs, or, get jobs in academia where they’re exploited for even lower pay than they had before they went to graduate school.

Lesson: if you have a good idea, don’t wait for a job or academia to give you cover to do it. More: http://www.cadence90.com/wp/?p=3735

The bulk of the Echo Boomers (born between 1982-1995) are starting to work their way through college. Your professor friends can expect a some fat years ahead during which the pendulum will swing their way. Just be sure to remind them to re-write to rules during the good times so that they can sleep with whomever they wanted.