Greedy deadwoods are still there.
Old dudes, please retire
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I have a confession to make. I am a young person. I was promoted a few times, but there was no way I was going up any further until someone retired or died. So I joined a secret society to fund research in China and Italy into novel viruses that would specifically target the old to either eliminate them or force them into retirement. I haven't really been active recently and don't know what became of it.
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I think that is the only point of choosing academic career, you can keep going till you are 70+.
Agree. This is the good news. That's why I am not looking for Full Prof ranked or internal career. I would rather to obtain outside compensation. Time is precious, it is difficult to find flexible working hours outside academia. And summer off.
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I think that is the only point of choosing academic career, you can keep going till you are 70+.
A bro said the other day the only point is the "flexibility" to raise a family.
Many "only-point" dictators ..the only point of academic career is to troll people looking for logical consistency on the Internet
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Actually, when someone does not retire until age, for instance 80, then retire at 81, and death at 82 -> S/he is a loss because s/he cannot enjoy his/her retirement benefit (just enjoy for 1 year) . . .
You clearly don't get it. Post-tenure life is retirement if you are doing it right.
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I think that is the only point of choosing academic career, you can keep going till you are 70+.
That's fine if you actually keep going. But there are people in my department who stopped doing any research when they were 40 and are still collecting a salary in their 70s (and still voting on department decisions in a way that promotes their own interests, rather than the interests of productive faculty).
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I think that is the only point of choosing academic career, you can keep going till you are 70+.
That's fine if you actually keep going. But there are people in my department who stopped doing any research when they were 40 and are still collecting a salary in their 70s (and still voting on department decisions in a way that promotes their own interests, rather than the interests of productive faculty).
Let me get this straight. You are angry that people are acting in their own best interests?