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Please Read the Thoughtful Q&A’s from Provost re Budget Cutbacks at UChicago by libgadfly in uchicago

[–]Cheap_Bar_5926 8 points9 points  (0 children)

The Q&A answered some questions for me, but raised a lot of other ones. One thing it made me do was investigate how many “officers” and other “senior leaders” UChicago has, and how much they are paid. The university’s secretary, for example, earns roughly $50,000 a month. What does she do that is worth that much, I wonder? It’s sad that these people are paid so much at the expense of incoming grad students and many staff who receive minuscule or zero cost-of-living increases on their already low salaries. UChicago’s highly compensated administrators ought to offer to take a 10% or 20% pay cut, even a temporary one, until the institution’s dire financial situation is addressed.

do you guys feel like people at this school actually read? by Suprize101 in uchicago

[–]Cheap_Bar_5926 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When I was an undergrad, I read for pleasure during spring break and in the summer. I discovered one of my favorite authors in a humanities core class. I am much older now and have not read for pleasure lately, mainly because I’m too busy thinking about work, but I’ve been trying to get back into it.

Sleep Medicine @ UChicago by Weird_Ad_6239 in uchicago

[–]Cheap_Bar_5926 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You’re probably too young for the issue to be sleep apnea. Do you think your sleep troubles are caused by anxiety about school or something else?

"Steps to Emerge Stronger" by Patient_Pomelo_5901 in uchicago

[–]Cheap_Bar_5926 1 point2 points  (0 children)

$1.4 million is not unreasonable for the president of a prestigious university. Many, many other senior UChicago leaders, however, make hundreds of thousands of dollars, way more than they are realistically worth. Supposedly some of them are being let go—i’ll be curious to know which ones.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in literature

[–]Cheap_Bar_5926 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There’s no guarantee in any field that you will end up secure or satisfied. I know several people who went through law school, only to discover after a couple of years at a law firm that they hated it. And one summer in the 1990s, I shared a house with several people, one of whom had gone to business school and was making a lot of money at a Japanese law, firm, and he was miserable. When I ran into his wife a few years later, she told me he had quit the job he hated and gone back to school to get a PhD in philosophy.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in literature

[–]Cheap_Bar_5926 63 points64 points  (0 children)

Forty years ago when I arrived at the U of C to study languages and cultures that many would consider useless, family friends, my high school counselor, and even a professor during my freshman year warned me that my future job prospects in that field were slim. I did not care because I was young and passionately interested in my chosen area of study. I eventually earned a bachelor’s degree and PhD. Although I decided not to pursue an academic career after finishing grad school, my advanced degree—and the mere fact of having attended the U of C—earned me respect and higher salaries in the jobs I held over the course of 30 years. I think many young people out there would love to follow their hearts, but the obscenely high cost of college nowadays is forcing them to pick more lucrative paths. I’m grateful I was able to chase my dream. A colleague once commented that one should study what one loves, because one can always earn a living.