On Feb 25, 12:11 am, pellicleund...@hotmail.com (obakesan) wrote:
> In article <fpsreo$cu...@aioe.org>, Jim Breen <jimbr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >obakesan wrote:
> >> just got a reply back from my friend, she says
> >> "As an example for salary for associate professor in national university,
> >> like me,  35 manen desu."
>
> >I'm not saying that's wrong, but it seems rather low.
>
> it seems friggin dreadful to me
>
> > A Japanese/American
> >assoc.prof. equates to "senior lecturer" in Australia. Academics here
> >regard their salaries as poor by world standards, yet an SL gets
> >around $90k/year, which is about 75man'en/month
>
> yes, well it only rubs salt into my wounds to know that the 'academic' who was
> my empty seat supervisor was getting paid anything near that on my thesis
>
> makes it worse to think that I'll have to 'co-author' with him if I want to
> get my first publication out there ... makes what the phillipino girls do in
> bars seem clean and moral in contrast.
>
Don't belittle the profession. There's a lot of skill in what they do.
So I hear.

John W.