In article <fpsreo$cui$1@aioe.org>, Jim Breen <jimbreen@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.


See Ya
(when bandwidth gets better ;-)

Chris Eastwood
Photographer, Programmer               
Motorcyclist and dingbat

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