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So in humanities professors are more often than not, people who failed in their field.
An example: A women could not deliver in the corporate world, she got fired. She pursued a doctorate in Business Administration. She spends her days telling students about the glass ceiling preventing women from making it.
But how is it in STEM? Take physics professors. Are they people who failed to get a job at some LHC like in Cern? Or research magnetic rail guns. And instead has to teach college kids how to play with a multi-meter?
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yep
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>implying there are no people who genuinely enjoy teaching other people
Not everyone is as an anti-social as you.
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Most of my professors are doing research, teaching is a requirement for them in order to hold their position at the university.
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>>8344432
this
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>>8344359
I had a maths teacher in highschool who made lots of money designing fraud detection systems for banks
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>>8344359
Physics professors don't "fail" to get a job at a cern. Physics doctorates fail to get a job working as a professor and end up teaching high school or working at Starbucks.
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>>8344359
Physics profs conduct research. Even the associates. Usually they have teaching responsibilities as well unless they are very senior.
The advantage of academia over the private sector is increased autonomy in what/how you research. The drawback is teaching shithead 20 yos
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>>8344359
Did you even go to an university once?
professors do research, teaching is obligatory
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Sorry to interrupt this very interesting discussion, but a definite integral doesn't allow to add a arbitrary constant, fucking brainlets
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I had a physics teacher who was a real researcher is some really cutting edge electrical engineering. The guy had invented what he described as 'electric aspirin' and had worked on a lot of other projects. He took the teaching job for extra cash and absolutely sucked at teaching. Nearly failed the entire class. So no many STEM teachers are not failed in their field but that does not necessarily make them any better at their job.
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>>8344479
>professors do research
That entirely depends on the University itself.
80% of all professors just copy paste shit all their life and get by.
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>>8344359
In STEM there are professors who have
>DESIGNATED
teaching jobs.
There are also professors who lead research groups who also happen to teach for part of their salary. These people are far from failures, and in fact have some of the most coveted positions of all individuals working in science.
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>>8344506
The constant is only removed when you evaluate the integral
t. Trille integral professor
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>>8344359
No, the titles professors are the people who succeeded.
It's incredibly difficult to become a tenured professor in STEM, and they usually make assloads of money at big research unis.
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>>8344359
>go into industry
>get pushed out of technical tasks and into management after about 5 years because for some reason businesspeople think only young people can be good scientists and engineers
>stay in academia
>get to actually do science and research
Prof is the dream. Very few actually get to reach it.
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>>8344811
So you were taught by a crazy nut job? Interesting.
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>>8344900
>implying those management jobs aren't ultra well paid and comfy
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>>8345282
It's certainly paid more, but profs report higher degrees of job satisfaction so I dunno.
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>business administration is representative of humanities as a whole
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>>8344451
>The advantage of academia over the private sector is increased autonomy in what/how you research.
Yeah, just submit a grant application for literally anything with "in the context of man-made global warming" after it and you can research whatever you want with endless billions of taxpayer dollars to waste.
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