> > College professors make a lot of money.
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> Wrong. Virtually all of them that I've ever known are making about half what they'd be making if they were using their advanced degrees and training in a non-educational field.

Why limit it to college level? Teaching at any level, is vastly underpaid. For many years, my wife made more money than me. She was a secretary and I was a teacher. She didn't have a degree, and had fewer years on the job.

I had a friend who quit teaching and went to a management position at a Coca Cola bottling plant.
He doubled his teaching salary.

My sons, both of them, contract trim in new houses. They hang doors, install baseboard and do a little custom cabinet work. The two of them make as much money in a year as five teachers.

I know an auto mechanic who became a teacher in an auto mechanics class at the high school. He said he nearly starved for three years. Then he went back to being a mechanic.

I know a lady who taught high school math. She started selling real estate on the side so her kids could go to college. Now she sells real estate full time and drives a new Lincoln. She said she doesn't miss the Ford Pinto she had when she was teaching.

I knew a teacher who was a veteran of four years in the Air Force. He taught one year and then went back to the Air Force. He said it was the money. No, he wasn't a pilot. Not even an officer.
Howard