1. Educated Damn Fools.
2. It makes me SO much happier to know that my tax dollars are supporting someone who does not consider herself a ‘welfare queen.’ I’m assuming she’s going to pay me BACK when she lands on her feet again?
3. She only teaches TWO classes a week - why not work another two jobs like me?
4. Welcome to 0bamaville, Sweetheart!
I guess being a Useful Tool of the Left doesn’t pay what it used to! *SMIRK*
I am all for individuals with the brain power and perseverance needed to earn a PhD in any discipline going for it if that is where their interests lie. Learning for the sake of learning is not a bad thing at all (I know that this flies in the face of a segment of Freeperdom that glories in its lack of advanced education - I do not mean you).
That said, I am also completely behind the notion that they find a way to pay for themselves in this world.
I see only good coming from this described circumstance, if it means that those with the praise worthy accomplishment of having achieved an advanced degree also learn how to reach that level without being a burden.
I’d love to teach a college course someday, in my spare time. A couple guys where I work do that for some extra cash, and because it is fun.
I also worked as a Haunt Monster at our local theme park, again because it was fun, because it didn’t pay much, but still, one month of weekends and I had a thousand dollars in my pocket. But my kids both did it, so it was a family activity. And it’s fun to scare people.
I also wrote a column for the local paper, but the only way to make living money that way is if you can syndicate, and get paid 100 times for the same column.