10/14   Professors don't make that much money. They wasted many years
        to get a Phd, yet they make as much as I do, doing web pages
        sys admin, and development. Luzers.
           \_ There are a lot of fringe benefits as well as base pay. They
              travel to attend conferences, get the whole summer off
              sometimes, get paid sabbatical, and so on. Many make money
              from book deals, from the lecture circuit, and from other
              jobs (e.g. consultants). I know a guy recently appointed to
              full professor at CalTech who was given a $4xx,000 interest
              free loan to purchase a house. It's not a bad life. --dim
           \_ CS professors at Cal make a shitload off taking grad student
                work and forming startups on the side.  Just look at
                Brewer (inktomi), Stonebraker & Rowe (ingres), and
                Newton (cadence) for example.
                \_ Whoa!  You mean those Profs didn't do all that stuff from
                   scratch on their own?  They reamed their grad students?
                   You can't be serious!
                   \_ No, what usually happens is that the grad students drop out,
                      go to work for the startup, and get rich along with the prof