Welcome to the corporate world where you will have to obey to obscure requests, work on boring projects, spend all of your day in useless meetings, and suck it up.
On a different note, the grass is always greener on the other side.
On a different note, the grass is always greener on the other side.
Definitely though you don’t have anybody over your neck dictating you what you should be doing day-in, day-out.
It includes all tenure-track professors.
> which doesn't include adjunct professors
Yeah, those are called "temp teachers". Don't get distracted by the fact that they teach courses at a university instead of a high school. The job is functionally the same.
> teacher assistants, research assistants
That's not a job. That's a thing a student can do to receive funding for their studies. It's up to the student to make sure that they use the time they invest in their phd program wisely. Good professors will help.
1 meeting a week here .. Management is super against wasting everyone's time in endless useless meetings.