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What's it like to be a professor?
Answer below by Jay Wacker, former professor.
TL;DR: It's varied and requires a lot of different skills that I didn't learn in school.
I get to work on what I want to work on. I get to choose my own hours. But there are a lot of responsibilities beyond simply doing research and teaching. What these are depends on the university and field of study
My life as a junior professor at Stanford (up for tenure in the fall) consists of the following.
Tenure
Stanford is a research university. All tenure decisions are based off your research reputation in your respective community. You have to be competent in the classroom and reasonably collegial to your colleagues, but in the end, the cliche of "publish or perish" is true. Read more...
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