Jeremiah St Cyr: i think a pretty fun joke would be for every astronomy professor in the world to cash out their savings accounts on the same day and then just like hide for three weeks.

i think a pretty fun joke would be for every astronomy professor in the world to cash out their savings accounts on the same day and then just like hide for three weeks.

all my friends in academia know the real joke here is professors having money in a savings account

When I got my first professor job I had to sign up for a new credit card before I could buy furniture that didn’t fold into a canvas bag

My first post graduate teaching job paid $1,500 for one class. Not $1,500 a month. $1,500 a SEMESTER for teaching 40 students.

JFC.

And to think, the students probably paid significantly more than that EACH.

Got to pay for all those Administrator perks...

Sooo that’s ~16 weeks smfh that’s a shameful amount to pay someone

When I started grad school, my wife and I bought a couch financed by what we later found out was a payday lender. They literally had repoed couches in their lobby when we'd go to make a payment. When I got my job post-Ph.D., we'd hit the big time and bought an IKEA couch. Dolla dolla, y'all.

And they’ve been farming out much of the teaching to adjuncts and it is criminal what they pay them

I'm glad I read your follow up first. Otherwise I would have embarrassingly replied with a more awkward version of your own punchline.

Damn, dude, wat to harsh the mellow

Alright, who talked???

... And spend an hour a day pointing at the sky and shrieking in horror! 🤣

The banking system wouldn't even notice - how much do you think astronomers are getting paid

Funnier than anything in Don't Look Up.

If you don't invite astrophysicists, the news channels will find Neil deGrasse Tyson, and he will probably blow the joke.

there's probably too many astronomy professors for this to happen. but if you got every mathematician on Earth onto a single cruise ship, gave them all three months away from academia, and told nobody about what you were doing....

HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Wouldn't work too well. "What do they know that we don't?" is a question that has already been answered - a f**kton.

Then they should all come back online and announce that they were holding meetings about the asteroid that is going to collide with our planet in 3 months' time.

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