I'm a Tenured College Professor. I'm Quitting. Here's Why.
by Jessica Wildfire

"Most of my professor friends can't support themselves. That includes the fancy tenured professors, even at nice schools. They have sugar mamas & sugar daddies. They're married to lawyers and bankers, or IT managers. If they're like me, they've got a secret side hustle.

Here's an irony:

My university forces everyone to disclose outside income. So if you have a second job or a side hustle, you're technically supposed to report it. You're supposed to ask them for permission. They can say no.

That's right, the same university that gave me a chocolate bar for a raise also says I can't take on a second job to support my family. They're worried it would distract me from all the free work I'm doing for them." https://www.okdoomer.io/im-a-professor-heres-why-im-walking-away-from-my-tenure/

I'm a Tenured College Professor. I'm Quitting. Here's Why.

Americans are letting education fall apart. Politicians are helping it.

OK Doomer

@KeithDJohnson ouch :-(

My employer (by German labor law) isn’t even allowed to forbid a second job, if that second job does not impede my work quality and does not directly compete with the employer.

I have to tell them about side jobs, and if they don’t have a good reason, they have to permit it.

@KeithDJohnson @ArneBab see the problem is that even if that were to be the law in the US, they would just harass you into giving up the job or quitting because there's not effective protections on the retaliation front and you still have to tell them so They Will Know

@Lunaphied so the US also needs better ways to sue your employer for misconduct?

(not that German law always protects you against that. There was a clerk who got fired over picking up a 50 cent bon a customer forgot …)
@KeithDJohnson