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11462263 No.11462263 [Reply] [Original]

How impossible is it to become a professor? There’s seriously nothing else I’d be interested in/wouldn’t hate myself for doing

>> No.11462285

>>11462263
>University professor
Fucking impossible. <1% of phd grads from top tier universities make it.

>Community college professor/lecturer
A lot more possible. Not sure what the percentages are, but I have a few friends who do this.

>> No.11462320

>>11462263
If you're of the requisite IQ it's quite simple, really. In fact, you'll find it hard NOT to become a professor, since your mind is so sought after and appreciated.

>> No.11462341

>>11462320
>he unironically thinks this
Lol. IQ is a worthless measurement tool past 130 or so.

>> No.11462352

>>11462263
Piss easy but the pay is awful for 95% of professors. Many are living in their cars these days. No joke.

>> No.11462403

Be a persistent brainlet who goes along to get long. Acquire credentials by fellating people who did the same before you. Tolerate being beholden to mentally barren modern academics for 8+ years
Those are the only requirements

>> No.11462658
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11462658

Move to Tokyo where you can teach part-time as a student teacher.

>> No.11462736

>>11462285
><1% of phd grads from top tier universities make it
Shit, really? I'm not in the humanities but this makes it seem like there would be no incentive to get a PhD. I doubt >99% of students go into it for the lulz; where do the rest end up?

>> No.11462770

>>11462736
Maybe I exaggerated the numbers. It looks like 3% go on to becoming actual university professors (and even fewer will make tenure).

Most of them either go into industry or work as adjuncts (making 20k a year).

>> No.11462784

>>11462770
What is "industry" for a doctor of literature? I thought PhD was just the pipeline for the next cohort of professors and the ones who wouldn't have a future in academics didn't get into the PhD program.

>> No.11462789

Professor as in, a full professor with a tenure? Fucking impossible.

Lecturer or even associate professor is doable though if you are bright enough, willing to suck dicks and to set aside critical thinking.

>> No.11462792

>>11462658
> pets a cat
> describes an ear
> fucks a girl with small breasts
> falls down a well
> commits suicide
> has a weird dream
> listens to some jazz
> cooks spaghetti
> reads a tolstoy novel
> has a beer at a seedy bar
*mysteriously disappears*

>> No.11462794

here's a video explaining the process:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=obTNwPJvOI8

>> No.11462797

>>11462794
Don't fall for these shitty meme videos.

>> No.11462806

>>11462797
there isn't a more surefire way of turning into a massive hack then becoming a university/college professor

>> No.11462813

>>11462792
so accurate I lol'd

>> No.11462848

>>11462784
>what is “industry” for a doctor of literature?
Waiting tables

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11462856

>>11462806
>>11462848

>> No.11462863

>>11462806
That's bullshit, there's got to be at least one...

and yeah.

>> No.11464065

unis are infested by libs, why would you wanna be a professor? The pay is dogshit too
faggot thinks he's gonna be like James Moriarty

>> No.11464116

>>11462806
unironically this

>> No.11464425

>>11462352
Bullshit. I work at Wal-Mart and don't have to live out of my car