{"id":1315,"date":"2013-01-06T15:56:53","date_gmt":"2013-01-06T20:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio.purdue.edu\/lab\/leung\/blog\/?p=1315"},"modified":"2013-01-06T16:26:02","modified_gmt":"2013-01-06T21:26:02","slug":"is-professor-career-stressful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/is-professor-career-stressful\/","title":{"rendered":"Is professor career stressful?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes has just published an article about professor&#8217;s career as the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/susanadams\/2013\/01\/03\/the-least-stressful-jobs-of-2013\/\"> No. 1 of the least stressful jobs of 2013<\/a>, and that has caused a huge uproar by many colleagues in the comments. Apparently, the article was written with misconceptions of what a professor&#8217;s life is like, based on innuendos and information from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.careercast.com\/jobs-rated\/10-least-stressful-jobs-2013\">CareerCast<\/a>. While the author has made an addendum after hearing a lot of angry comments in two days, the tone is disappointingly impersonal. Basically she only said I hear you, I am only relaying the message from CareerCast, thank you for your comments and I understand your life MAY be more stressful than portrayed. You can actually see how people are critical about that too, and I am not repeating that here.<\/p>\n<p>For students who are fascinated about &#8220;doing research&#8221; as a career\/becoming a professor, I encourage you to read through these discussions, as well as a followup article &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/davidkroll\/2013\/01\/05\/top-10-reasons-being-a-university-professor-is-a-stressful-job\/\">Top 10 Reasons Being a University Professor is a Stressful Job<\/a>&#8221; in Forbes by another contributor who has a science background to see the actual dedication that one has to put in to be in this profession.<\/p>\n<p>Updated 2013-01-06.<\/p>\n<p>I just received a link to another take of this discussion: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/factsandotherfairytales.com\/2013\/01\/04\/the-least-stressful-job-for-2013-a-real-look-at-being-a-professor-in-the-us\/\">The Least Stressful Job for 2013? A Real Look at Being a Professor in the\u00a0US<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes has just published an article about professor&#8217;s career as the No. 1 of the least stressful jobs of 2013, and that has caused a huge uproar by many colleagues in the comments. Apparently, the article was written with misconceptions of what a professor&#8217;s life is like, based on innuendos and information from CareerCast. While [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[259,180,261,260,258],"class_list":["post-1315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faisharing","tag-academic","tag-career","tag-careercast","tag-forbes","tag-professor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1315"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1320,"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315\/revisions\/1320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}