I'm wondering if anybody has gone the "screw making more money", let's go into academia route?

I'm there!  I teach online college courses for the University of Phoenix, and it does not pay nearly as much as I could make as a CPA.  But I will do it for as long as they'll have me because I love teaching those who are trying to better themselves. Many of my students are older than me; some have grown children and are now focusing on themselves, others got a late start on college due to having children at a young age, and the list goes on. I like that my work has meaning, beyond getting paid to crunch numbers just so they can be put on a form to send to the IRS. 

When my children get older, I plan on teaching classes in person either as adjunct faculty at a local university or at the community college down the road.   

I think I'de become a lot of generous, not that i'm not at the moment! haha

I'm wondering if anybody has gone the "screw making more money", let's go into academia route?

I'm a part time teacher at a local college but I don't think this counts lol, because it's a for profit organization and I sometimes feel like the school is ripping off the students. Especially the international students who have to pay more but receive the same education and training as other local students.

I'm wondering if anybody has gone the "screw making more money", let's go into academia route?

Academia was my first plan, in a way. I originally went to school to be a science teacher, but after classroom experience, I decided against teaching kids. Possibly in the future, I will try for teaching at the college level.

I think it's important to look at money in terms of what it can do for us, and ensure that we remain the masters of that relationship and don't enslave ourselves to money.

I'm wondering if anybody has gone the "screw making more money", let's go into academia route?

 

Actually, I hope to do sometime like this in the future - reach the point where I stop caring about making more money, leave my current job, and teach at a community college instead.

I always thought that'd be a nice transition into retirement.  But that's many, many years off here!

I'm wondering if anybody has gone the "screw making more money", let's go into academia route?

Actually, I hope to do sometime like this in the future - reach the point where I stop caring about making more money, leave my current job, and teach at a community college instead.

That is probably a true observation.  Thanks for sharing.  In a similar vein, do people without money growing up tend to assume that money is always out of reach?

For the most part, yes. Some consiously, some unconciously. But by and large, it seems that people without money, while they may dream of being rich, figure things probably aren't going to change all that much.

Not going to have time to read the post before work, but my quick thoughts. In general, I would agree. I went to a high school with a pretty large income disparity. A lot of poor and lower-middle class farming and blue-collar families from one town, and a lot of upper middle-class white-collar professional families in the next. It wasn't universal, but the kids from the wealthier families seemed to act more entitled. That maybe isn't the best word for what I'm looking to describe. They would always just assume that the money was going to be there and it could be spent as they wished. Us poorer kids knew that the trip to Italy just wasn't going to happen, no matter how many times the richer kids asked us if we were going.

 

Looking at adults, I see similar patterns playing out. People who have money tend to assume that money is always available for whatever purpose, everyone has money and if you don't, it's your fault.

That is probably a true observation.  Thanks for sharing.  In a similar vein, do people without money growing up tend to assume that money is always out of reach?

Money changes you if you don't have a values/ethics base that your parents taught or that you learn and internalized. There are also back story and reasons for how someone act that you may not be aware of.

 

The adage about old money vs. new money is very valid.  There is a very good reason why old old money avoid semi-old money and new money. 

 

It's similar to how people think about business when they have different levels of companies.  How I think about business is radically different than someone who is a one person firm.  The problems/issues are different.  

 

If I chose to cut off a $10K donation, someone can blame me for being greedy vs. understanding that our licenses just went up 1000% & cost an extra $100K.  (Yep, that happened in January)

 

The single wo/man firm has much fewer things to consider so their attitudes will be different and can be attributed to money vs. circumstances.

I find it annoying when people judge someone for giving less.  I mean, seriously?  Unless the person judging gives way more, even so, who is anybody else to judge what others do with their money?